In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we find out how abandoned fishing gear in the oceans is getting turned into ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Wetlands save the economy billions of dollars by controlling floods, improving water quality and storing carbon that would ...

The chemical basis of the lichen’s resistance lies in its UV-opaque cortex, a structural layer enriched with phenolic lichen ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

BigPicture began in 2014 and has received more than 64,000 images from photographers around the world since launching. The ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...