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Researchers have found a mysterious 4,000-foot coral reef that dates back millions of years in the middle of an Australian desert. The reef was found in southern Australia's Nullarbor Plain, [...]

DART is the worlds first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against an asteroid or comet collision.

A research group has isolated the individual impacts of water supply and temperature on production, which are usually confused since dryness and heat are strongly associated.

University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor Yemane Asmerom was elected as an American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Fellow. He joined 53 other individuals from around the world in the 2022 Class of Fellows (add link). Since 1962, the AGU Union...

Yale seismologist Maureen Long recently took her expertise on the structure of the earth’s rigid outer layer to a Yale alumni-founded YouTube series for kids.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) warned that astronomers could be misinterpreting the data sent by the James Webb Space Telescope. The team warned that limitations in technology could result in an "accuracy wall" that misleads predictions of a planet's properties.

The crippling natural disaster is another example of how the actions of economically stronger and more powerful nations, however unintentional, can have a crushing impact.

Astronomers may be interpreting James Webb Space Telescopes measurements of exoplanet atmospheres wrong, a new study suggests.

Australia was surrounded by oceans and had rain forests millions of years ago, during the Cenozoic period

An examination of the rock record of Mars highlights the importance of wind erosion in shaping the Red Planet.