Crowds gathered today at rallies, such as this one in Boston, Mass., to “Stand Up for Science” after a tumultuous year in science policy. Credit: Grace van Deelen/AGU Thousands of rally-goers in 33 ...

Using a new technique to analyze old synthetic aperture radar data, researchers observed direct evidence of a Venusian lava tube about 300 meters tall and 1 kilometer in diameter. Here an artist’s ...

For decades, scientists have debated how earthquakes can occur in the hot, dense mantle beneath continents. Most earthquakes happen in Earth’s brittle upper crust, where rocks snap under pressure. But ...

Satellite image of the Rubaya mining site in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Image copyright Planet Labs, used with permission, collected on 24 February 2026. There are disputed reports of another ...

Though 77% of Antarctica's coastline remains stable, the unstable portions have lost large amounts of ice over the past three decades. Credit: NASA/GSFC, Public Domain Research & Developments is a ...

Major tectonic features within the North American midcontinent. The red and purple stars mark the locations of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District, with igneous intrusions at around 270 million ...

An occupied vehicle was crushed, but the person in the car escaped unhurt. On 1 March 2026, a very dramatic rockfall occurred in Fjæra in Etne in Vestland county, Norway. The rockfall, which ...

Climate change’s impacts on mangroves were incorporated into a new calculation of the social cost of carbon, a measure of the monetary damages climate change is causing. Credit: Kristin Hoel, Unsplash ...

Simulated image showing gigantic streams of helium escaping from the atmosphere of planet HAT-P-32b as it orbits its host star. Credit: M. MacLeod (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and A.

The figure shows results of different terrace formation models across countless combinations of parameters within the model. Through this sensitivity analyses and despite the potentially large ...

A massive gully has been developing over the last two decades at Pondok Balik. It now covers an area of over 3 hectares. In Indonesia, a massive and rapidly developing gully is causing considerable ...

Rising temperatures may tip Earth systems into states of irreversible destabilization, scientists argue in a new paper. Credit: Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Earth systems may be on the brink of long-term, ...