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It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot

Will Larsen's love of science and the outdoors — combined with initiative and perseverance — led the Tar Heel to the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies and fieldwork on the remote islands.

NASA's Dragonfly mission, launching in 2026, will land on Saturn's moon, Titan. HowStuffWorks takes a look at this ambitious mission.

Vikings were forced to flee Greenland several centuries ago due to drastically rising sea levels from climate change. New research conducted by scientists has revealed that a combination of growing ice sheets as well as rising sea levels during the 15th century caused catastrophic coastal flooding. These environmental changes destroyed numerous farms and eventually left... Read more »

Krypton from the Earth's mantle, recovered from geologic hot zones in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, sheds light on how our world came to be.

Climate change that led to sea level rise and severe coastal flooding could explain why the Vikings abandoned their Greenland settlements.

Krypton from the Earth’s mantle, collected from geologic hot spots in Iceland and the Galapagos Islands, reveals a clearer picture of how our planet formed, according to new research from the University of California, Davis.

Earth’s surface environment hosts large reservoirs of hydrogen (H, mainly in the form of water, H2O), nitrogen (in atmospheric N2) and carbon (mainly

The stable environments of lunar pits and caves could help astronauts weather some of the moon's worst extremes

The moon may be a mostly uniform expanse of gray, but if you look closely, you can still find a few nooks and crannies in its surface, from deep