The consolidation of clay layers is of great significance for groundwater environmental protection, groundwater storage utilization, and land subsidence. In this study, the governing equation for the ...

A team of scientists led by Joanne Stephenson from the Australian National University (ANU) has made a surprising discovery about Earth's inner core. Their research suggests that the core may have an ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

Our knowledge of what lies beneath Earth's crust has been inferred mostly from what volcanoes have divulged and what seismic waves have whispered. From these indirect observations, scientists have ...

If you think the Australian summer sun feels harsher than a summer in the Northern Hemisphere, you're not wrong. But why that ...

Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. We know about past climates because of evidence left in tree rings, layers of ice in glaciers, ocean sediments, coral reefs ...

THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

The mesosphere, the layer of sparse air above the stratosphere ... was published in the journal Progress in Earth and Planetary Science on Jan. 10. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space ...

A giant patch of black, fossilized lava that was spewed across the Sahara desert over millions of years looks like an eerie, gold-speckled shadow in this stunning composite of three years' worth ...