Earth

The "Atlantic meridional overturning circulation" (AMOC) may sound complicated, and it mostly is, but it's defined very simply as the...

For the rest of April, you'll have a good chance of seeing some shooting stars as the Lyrid meteor shower comes through this...

On the heels of a new, magnetic map of the world's oceans provided by the ESA, climate scientists have announced a new ocean...

Doomsday prophets are nothing if not persistent, we'll give them that--almost two years ago to the day, Outer Places called the last...

Say what you will about the many, many, many scientific inaccuracies in the 2003 disaster movie The Core, but it did teach a...

In most people's imaginations, archaeologists spend their days carefully unearthing artifacts and ancient fossils by arduously...

A female blue whale living in the northern hemisphere is about 82 feet long, but luckily for seafaring humans, they only feed on...

In case you missed it, a DIY rocket scientist named Mike Hughes recently launched a homemade rocket over the California desert as part...

Over the past century, the Antarctic has gone from being a vast Terra Incognita to a continent-sized ticking time bomb: according to...

Out of all the scientific discoveries made recently, "puffins have glowing beaks" would be a tough one to guess.But when...

Like any other bustling metropolis, it's impossible to see much in New York's night sky beyond the Moon and whatever clouds are...

Coral reefs are dying. The world's largest coral reef, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, is going extinct very fast, thanks to...

The Nazca Lines of Peru have been fascinating to researchers and archeologists for decades. While these gigantic carvings were made...

For better or worse, one particular part of The Martian that really stuck with the audience was how the stranded Mars astronaut had...

Earth really is a special place.Our world the exact right distance from the sun to be able to support life, and its watery environment...

Nowadays, you don't hear about crystals being useful unless you're talking to someone who believes in pseudoscientific "healing...

We take it for granted that various species of birds will "fly south for the winter", but how do they navigate over long journeys?...

The only planet in the known universe that has been definitively proven to shelter life forms is our own.This being the case, it's...

As the world gears up for the new space race, it's easy to forget that space isn't the virgin soil it used to be--thanks to decades of...

Finding a single dinosaur footprint tends to be a big deal for paleontologists. Finding several dozen is an even bigger deal.And about...