A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

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If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age.

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

By pairing rover data with fieldwork in the UAE, the team showed how nearly identical processes can sculpt landscapes on two ...

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might ...

While lunar gardens are still out of reach, the study sheds more light on terrestrial biology that may not be limited to our ...

Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase ...

This is a retro shooter that just oozes fun. And actual ooze: there's lots of bug guts on screen, too. Once Rico's patriotic ...

Imagine watching a football field of fertile land transform into barren desert every four seconds. That's the staggering pace ...

These massive trains move iron ore, coal, and other bulk cargo on major routes in Australia, Brazil, China, the United States ...