NASA researchers are closely monitoring the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), a region over South America and the southern ...

A vast and evolving anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field, situated above South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, ...

Star dunes - sometimes called pyramid dunes - stand out among sand dunes for their towering height and eye-catching form.

It was through a letter dated March 30, 1579 that Giovanni Arduino announced the four orders that form the basis of ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden ocean deep beneath Earth’s surface—one that could transform what we know about the planet ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

For the AJ’s natural materials-themed issue, Rob Wilson and Fran Williams look at five projects currently on site or recently ...

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...