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There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.

Hawaii is the most isolated volcanic hot spot on Earth, far away from any plate boundary.

Sometimes called “the new gold,” sand is the second most exploited natural resource in the world after fresh water.

Within the next few decades, we may well have hard evidence for the existence of alien life on worlds light-years distant from Earth.

The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.

The natural wonders of Mauritius include the spectacular sight of an underwater waterfall. Here’s the science of how it works.

See the 3 biggest space stories from October 16-22, 2023.

There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.

“I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s and that experience gave me everything I needed to become a skeptic.”

The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.

This new geologic activity could be part of a thousand-year cycle, ushering in a new era of volcanism on the island.

Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in physics. They’re more than mathematical structures. They help describe the Universe.

Ancient helium-3 from the dawn of time leaks from the Earth, offering clues to our planet’s formation. A key question is where it leaks from.

NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.

Musical preferences are correlated with personality traits — and these connections are largely consistent across cultures and continents.

Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here’s what we’ll learn when we finally observe it.

What was this mammoth tusk doing on the ocean floor 150 miles from land?

A floating platform the size of Rome collapsed off of Antarctica.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.

At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it. 

As the Sun ages, it loses mass, causing Earth to spiral outward in its orbit. Will that cool the Earth down, or will other effects win out?

The world is facing many crises, and we should look to natural interdependence and ancient wisdom as we explore science for solutions.

Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.

More than 300 years ago, a Spanish ship laden with unspeakable treasure sank after a battle. Because of greed, the treasure remains on the sea floor.

Many of us look at black holes as cosmic vacuum cleaners: sucking in everything in their vicinity. But it turns out they don’t suck at all.

After 15 years of monitoring 68 objects known as millisecond pulsars, we’ve found the Universe’s background gravitational wave signal!

A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.

It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it’s a losing strategy for elimination.

From life on Earth to the planet itself, there are four ways our planet will actually experience “the end,” no matter how we define it.