The death of a woman in July after she struggled with firefighters and was taken to a hospital is being investigated as a ...

A rare carbonaceous meteorite discovered in the Western Sahara has captured the attention of scientists for containing grains ...

The US president's curt description of Greenland recalls a pattern in which colonial authorities have sometimes classified land as "not used" or "uninhabited," overlooking Indigenous land relations ...

The most recent critical mineral exploration is being undertaken by Rapid City-based Pete Lien and Sons, which hopes to find ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently.

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye—yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

A new study reveals a detailed look at what lies beneath the Hawaiian hotspot.

A 23-year-old man was sentenced to four years in federal prison after admitting he hurled a Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during protests against immigration raids across ...