Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate U.S. forests, ac...
Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces...
The intensity of earth's magnetic field has been weakening in the last couple of hundred years, leading some scientists to think that its polarity...
Migration between different communities of bacteria is the key to the type of gene transfer that can lead to the spread of traits such as antibiotic r...
VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30-40 times the mass of the Sun and 30...
Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet...
The world-famous Australian reef is providing an effective barrier against landslide-induced tsunamis, new research shows. What has developed into the...
As world leaders prepare to gather in France for the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change next week, global warming -- and how to stop it ...
A new study finds fisher education can help protect vulnerable shark populations. The research, led by University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of M...
Scientists have detected a burst of radio waves from six billion light years away, one of a handful they've discovered in the past decade -- and t...