Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

President Trump says he wants to make a deal for minerals from Ukraine in exchange for aid. That followed a long effort by ...

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

Egypt, a major recipient of U.S. military aid, is not the only country in Africa being drawn into China's orbit. Beijing has ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...