An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Human ...

A strikingly clear lake nestled in southwestern Turkey has become a focal point for scientists aiming to understand the ...

G eoscientists have used earthquakes to study the composition of the lower portion of the Earth’s mantle under the Pacific ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

US president Donald Trump recently signed an agreement to share Ukraine’s mineral resources. Just how scarce are rare earth ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers undergraduate and graduate courses covering topics ranging from oceanography to geomorphology to cloud physics. This course ...

It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 times closer than the Earth does around ... in temperature or chemical composition within each atmosphere ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...