Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals ...

Snow leopards are often referred to as the ghosts of the mountains because they are hardly ever seen.Every year on October 23 ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have stood firm, forming the foundation for mountains, rivers, and life itself. But ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared a remarkable photograph on his X (formerly Twitter) account, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The image showcases the snow-covered summit of Mount ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and ...

Oct. 8 (UPI) --International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. The European Space ...

It’s more than a mountain — it’s Cape Town’s soul. From its 500-million-year history to its spiritual role in local culture, this story unpacks how Table Mountain became one of Earth’s most remarkable ...

A small, giraffe-size asteroid called 2025 TF came closer to Earth than some satellites on Wednesday (Oct. 1), stunning astronomers who first spotted it hours later. Measuring an estimated 3.3 to 9.8 ...

For nearly twenty years, satellites have quietly gauged the flow of sunlight and heat through the Earth’s atmosphere. Today, scientists say those measurements indicate a disturbing trend — the ...

For months now, there have been whispers, rumors ,and online chatter about Donald Trump’s health, and lately they seem to have grown louder. Although I feel as though the state of his health is rarely ...