Volcanoes draw plenty of attention when they erupt.
The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are striking. Scientists suspect it is a frozen mixture of water and salts, but its chemical signature is mysterious because it matches no known substance on Earth.
Research on the impacts of climate change often considers its effects on people separately from impacts on ecosystems.
In the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the plight of southern resident orcas.
Many scientists had once hypothesized that the first apes to evolve in Africa more than 20 million years ago ate primarily fruit and lived within the thick, closed canopy of a nearly continent-wide forest ecosystem.
Joan Casey lived through frequent wildfire-season power outages when she lived in northern California.
Scientists are not alarmed at discovering this geologic feature, which does not trigger earthquakes but may regulate friction in the fault zone
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust — the fuel required for creating new stars — in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed.
For all their uncanny intelligence and seemingly supernatural abilities to change color and regenerate limbs, octopuses often suffer a tragic death.
The snow that falls in the mountains is good for more than just skiing, snowshoeing and breathtaking vistas.
Countries around the world pledged in the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or, at most, 2 degrees Celsius.
A years-long research debate over which animal is the rightful mother of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia has been resolved. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers and their international colleagues demonstrated that they can only belong to the last of a unique duck-like line of megafauna known as the 'Demon Ducks of Doom'.
A novel algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers to discover asteroids in the solar system has proved its mettle.
Your immune system’s ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease.
Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, Berkeley have conducted experiments that measured the physical limits for the existence of liquid water in icy extraterrestrial worlds.
Space urgently needs special legal protection similar to that given to land, sea and atmosphere to protect its fragile environment, argues a team of scientists.
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to warm the world’s oceans, marine biodiversity could be on track to plummet within the next few centuries to levels not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to research from the University of Washington and Princeton University.
The flashing of a nearby star drew the attention of a team of astronomers, who discovered that it is part of a rare and mysterious system.
The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics.
Scientists have documented a previously unknown subpopulation of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland.