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 ...

Our planet is sick, and its life-threatening symptoms are getting worse, a new report warns. Earth has been pushed past multiple physical and chemical boundaries crucial for keeping the world a ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

University of Texas Arlington provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Right now, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, ...

When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...

Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...