Since the 1850s, plowing and clear-cutting in modern agriculture have increased how fast soil erodes in the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Across the globe, farming strips soil up to 100 times faster ...

When you think of an asteroid impact, you’re probably imagining something like the cataclysmic event that nearly wiped out the dinosaurs. In an astonishingly rare event, a rock the size of the island ...

Globally, about 1 billion people live near glaciers and depend on glacial water. As temperatures continue to climb due to global warming, glaciers can become unstable and hazardous to nearby ...

Humans have searched for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth for over a century. The most well-known effort, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), was popularized by Carl Sagan’s ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, an immense cloud of gas and dust in space collapsed in on itself. As it collapsed, gravity pulled most of the material toward several small points, one of which would ...

Image Credit: "Brown Dwarf Illustration" by NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva is licensed under CC BY 4.0 To investigate what H-type objects are and where they fit within the spectrum of substellar objects ...

Researchers showed that massive stars at the end of their lives are more likely to collapse into black holes than to explode into… ...

Researchers showed that massive stars at the end of their lives are more likely to collapse into black holes than to explode into… ...

Researchers created cell-like bubbles from simple molecules that grow and divide on their own, without the need for DNA or enzymes.

Drilling for electricity or geothermal energy is a common human-caused source of earthquakes. Drillers or engineers inject water into the earth to fracture underground rock through a process known as ...

Scientists used computer simulations to determine how ancient star clusters formed. Their results were similar to real clusters found with… ...

At the most fundamental level, a star exists when material is bound together strongly enough by gravity that it undergoes nuclear fusion at its center, but at the same time is not releasing enough ...