Earth

Hera Rising, the first effort to bring a woman skydiver into the stratosphere, now plans to launch its historic mission in 2026. Fundraising is one of the things the group is working on.

A new study suggests an earthquake of estimated magnitude 7.5 or 8 shook the Indian subcontinent 2,500 years ago, changing the course of the Ganges.

A large plume of Saharan dust settled across the Gulf states this week after an epic journey from Africa.

The strongest hurricane to occur this early in the year makes landfall in Matagorda, Texas, as a Category 1 early Monday (July 8) morning.

The International Astronomical Union has partnered with the Radiolab podcast to present a quasi-moon-naming contest.

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume.

Mysterious dark matter could slosh over our planet like a wave. If it does, it may produce telltale radio waves in Earth's atmosphere, new theoretical research suggests.

"There was this gigantic river system": Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.

The rotation of Earth's inner core began to slow down more than a decade ago, altering the length of our days by fractions of a second.