Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

Between September and November, Death Valley received 2.4 inches of rain, with 1.8 inches in November alone — breaking a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is turning green and getting brighter as it nears Earth. Scientists track the ancient space rock, ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

Ancient Mars is coming into sharper focus as a planet laced with rivers, deltas and vast drainage basins, and that new map of ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Earth’s origin story has always had missing pages, from the chemistry of its first crust to the ingredients that seeded life.

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Scientists are decoding fragile meteorites to uncover which small asteroids could become future treasure troves for space exploration.

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

The discovery of the Snake Goddess made researchers focus on the mysterious religion of Minoan Crete and its connection of ...