Melissa is forecast to become the first Category 5 landfall in the Atlantic Basin since Dorian roared into the Bahamas in 2019. There have been 32 Category 5 hurricanes in the Atlantic since the use ...

Hawaii is still planet Earth’s numero uno destination for cooing lovebirds. “Primarily, couples are going to honeymoon ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

Then there’s Death Valley, a desert that claims the world-record high of 134 degrees and bears geographic names like Hells Gate and Amargosa Chaos. Nevertheless, Conde Nast Traveller considered Death ...

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

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

Wildflowers are blooming in the Atacama Desert, an inhospitable stretch of land west of the Andes Mountains that normally ...

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 ...

Snow leopards move through the high mountains of Asia like ghosts. Few humans ever see them. They live above the tree line, in thin air and sharp winds. For centuries, their elusive nature kept them ...

SWAN is best viewed in the Southern Hemisphere. The comet crossed into the Libra constellation on September 28, and will make ...