There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

“When dinosaurs first appear in the fossil record, all the Earth’s continents were part of the giant supercontinent Pangaea. Dinosaurs emerged in the southern portion of this land ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

Weather, climate and hydrometeorology forecasts require accurate surface-atmosphere coupled modeling, but arbitrary reference heights have been used in computing surface turbulent fluxes. A team of ...

In recent years, fires have blasted through cities in California, Colorado, the southern Appalachians and the island of Maui, along with Canada, Australia, Portugal and Greece. What wasn’t burned was ...

Japanese authorities urge evacuation as a massive sinkhole in Saitama grows, hampering rescue efforts to free an elderly truck driver.

Last year was the hottest year in history – on average more than 1.55 degrees higher than pre-industrial temperatures. The ...

The isolated land mass, also known as Bjørnøya ... according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In this case, the vortices are created by clouds passing over Miseryfjellet, the largest mountain ...

During deglaciation, melting of kilometers-thick ice sheets reduces the mass weighing down the land, which leads to uplift. This alters the pressure inside magma chambers lying below the Earth's ...

A retired GP has developed a theory as to where a mass grave containing the bodies ... laser light to create a 3D representation of the earth's surface. All had shown "a very long line" across ...

If you drive on York Road near the Belvedere Square Market, you will see an empty plot of land just before the staples ... of the earliest life-forms on Earth 20 screen stars and their ...