Neptune’s tiny moons may be ancient wreckage, preserving material exposed when a catastrophic event shattered much larger icy worlds. In 1989,…

Indonesia’s underground peat fires are surging under El Niño and drought, raising fears of another destructive fire season. Some fires race…

By burying thousands of pairs of cotton underwear across Switzerland, scientists uncovered striking differences in biological activity from one type of…

In August 2026, a series of powerful winter storms transformed parts of northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, covering the famously dry landscape…

Puerto Rico went from no drought to widespread extreme drought in just months as rainfall collapsed and water shortages spread. Puerto…

New findings raise questions about the role of microbes living in the lungs. More than 35 trillion bacteria live throughout the…

Lipid droplets in the kidneys may help cats maintain a consistent chemical “scent identity.” Scent marks can linger long after an…

Ancient meteorite minerals reveal a surprisingly strong magnetic field from the solar system’s first 200,000 years. About 4.6 billion years ago,…