Earlier this month, relentless 90-mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds sent wildfires tearing through Greater Los Angeles, taking ...

No, this isn’t the setting of your favorite fantasy novel – it’s Castle Crags State Park in Castella, California. Nestled in the heart of Shasta County, this stunning natural wonderland is a hidden ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

And few fossils capture our imagination quite like those of the dinosaurs who lived millions of years ago. This interactive ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

The energy that radiates back toward Earth heats both the lower atmosphere and the surface, enhancing the heating they get from direct sunlight. This absorption and radiation of heat by the atmosphere ...