An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

While Tolkien's stories take place in the fictional realm of Middle-earth, the awe-inspiring landscapes of the books, films ...

Eventually, Google Maps may jot all this down for the tourists ... A big part of what creates that compressed air — what we call atmosphere — is the pull of Earth’s gravity drawing atmospheric gasses ...

This is the second installment of a two-part series about the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Read part one here. Elevation ...

Part of the draw for readers is the vast world of Middle-earth described ... The northernmost part on the map of Middle-earth is a mountainous region that is simply labeled The Northern Waste. Such a ...

I am suitably impressed with what I saw, and I didn't think they'd be able to improve on MSFS 2020 much more than an ...

High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...

A nova, a rare astronomical event, could be visible soon. It won't last long, and it won't occur again for several decades.

Vice President Kamala Harris will hit the battlegrounds of Georgia and Wisconsin. Former President Donald J. Trump and both candidates’ running mates are off the trail on Friday.

An explosion in space so massive you'll be able to look up and see it in the night sky without a telescope could happen "any ...