Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawaii erupted on January 12, 2026, sending lava fountains 800 feet into the air and ...

A long quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, blasting ash roughly 9 miles into the sky and catching both nearby ...

Experts say the more we challenge our brains as we age, the more resilient it becomes—and “learning a new instrument is a full-brain workout.” After the age of 40, the average brain decreases 5 ...

National parks in the U.S. are some of the most loved and revered places in the country. We all know the big players: the ...

Lava shooting as high as 800 feet turned Kilauea’s summit into a roaring furnace earlier this week, a reminder that one of ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park's Kilauea volcano erupted for the first time this year, drawing hordes of crowds. Here's what ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...