Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

Scientists have uncovered a massive, hidden rock layer beneath Bermuda, over 12 miles thick, defying typical oceanic island ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered pale rocks rich in kaolinite clay on the floor of Jezero Crater, a mineral that forms ...

Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is turning green and getting brighter as it nears Earth. Scientists track the ancient space rock, ...

Between September and November, Death Valley received 2.4 inches of rain, with 1.8 inches in November alone — breaking a ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it’s breaking the rules of geology. It sits on a broad hump in ...