In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an asteroid from slamming into Earth. The result? Project Icarus. A detailed, ...

Florida’s coral reefs provide protection from hurricane storm surges—and experts estimate that losing key species in those ...

Space weather forecasters have warned that the solar storm that erupted from the sun today could cause serious disruption to ...

NOAA did not renew a contract that supported a handful of seismic stations in Alaska. This could hamper tsunami warnings for ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia has successfully tested an (unarmed) underwater nuclear-torpedo powerful enough to “put ...

After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking ...

Funding and staffing cuts are shuttering the monitoring stations that sustain this life-saving early warning system.

Forget what you think you know about the built-up Spanish Costas. The aptly named Costa de la Luz — or ‘Coast of Light’ — is a quiet stretch along Andalucía's lesser-visited Atlantic seaboard, where ...

Nine earthquake monitoring stations in Alaska are set to go dark, leaving tsunami forecasters without important data to ...