High-precision oxygen isotopes in Apollo lunar soils reveal a persistent impactor fingerprint, showing that impacts contributed only a tiny fraction of ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered ...

Reliable predictions of how the Earth's climate will respond as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels increase are based on ...

This epidemic was known as Plague of Justinian—it occurred between 541 and 750 A.D., and is one of the earliest known ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Scientists determined the origin of the bathing water and draw conclusions about Pompeii's water management system and ...

As Trump considers buying Greenland, the island grapples with hazardous US military waste and environmental liabilities.

Scientists say they have found geochemical traces of Earth’s ancient self hidden far below our feet, suggesting that parts of the planet that existed before the Moon-forming collision 4.5 billion ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

For their study, Dr. Luz María Mejía, now at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, and her colleagues focused ...

A misalignment-tolerant multi-pass optical cavity boosts weak Raman signals, doubling path length and enabling stable, ...

Water in Pompeii’s Roman baths was contaminated, reveals new research. Limescale deposits in the buried city’s wells, pipes, ...