Marine protected areas cover more than 8% of the world's oceans today, but they can get a bad rap as being protected on paper only.
For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional
Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.
Space hurricanes can shake Earth's magnetic field and scramble satellites without a solar storm in sight.
A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are racing to understand why.
The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.
GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephants in western Namibia.
The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturing the ice surface and forming a large crater — an event only recently uncovered by Earth-observing satellites.
Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.
