Much has been said about William Anders, the astronaut who died June 7 at 90, when the plane he was flying solo crashed in the waters off Orcas Island. He was a fighter pilot turned space explorer. A ...

Are humans disrupting the Earth’s salt cycle through deicing roads and other salt activities? This is what a recent study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

A new study examines nickel and urea in early microbial habitats, showing how ancient cyanobacteria adapted to their chemical ...

NASA has confirmed the discovery of 2025 PN7, a small quasi-moon that has been orbiting near Earth since the 1960s and may ...

Soil carbon cycling is closely linked with landscape complexities in soil properties, climate and land use. This Perspective outlines how soil formation theory could provide insight on landscape-scale ...

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Is Earth's new 'second moon' dangerous? Get the truth about Asteroid 2025 PN7, the harmless quasi-moon that baffles NASA ...

Beach nourishment is a well-established engineering practice to slow erosion and maintain or expand sandy beaches, but sea level rise, diminishing sand resources and recreational, groundwater and ...