Evaporation

The relationship between Earth and the Sun is pretty good by cosmic standards.

April 19, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Extreme storms hit the central U.S. in early April. A climate scientist explains the recipe for severe storms and why a warming world makes them more frequent. The post Extreme storms, like recent ones in the US, follow a recipe first appeared on EarthSky.

The smoldering chemical reaction inside Chiquita Canyon Landfill is growing and could last for decades, according to a new state analysis.

On March 11, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.

DOMINICA, Mar 28 (IPS) - The World Meteorological Organization's State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean report recounts the toll of record-breaking hurricanes, heat and flooding in the Region, but shines light on renewable energy and a response to the call for robust, end-to-end early warning systems.Hope in the face of climate extremes. That is the overarching message about the State of the…

The Extremely Large Telescope will revolutionize our view of the cosmos when it sees first light in Chile in 2028. In fact, it could detect hints of alien life around our closest neighboring star system in its first night of operations, new simulations suggest.

The story of oceans is the story of life. Life as we know it requires three ingredients: energy, organic molecules, and liquid water.

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how we think it happened

Getting into hot water

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed remnants of rippling waves in an ancient Martian lakebed, proving that the Red Planet had open water for longer in its history than previously thought.

New images, taken over 16 min on January 17, 2025 by the Mastcam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover, show noctilucent, or twilight clouds, in the atmosphere of Mars.

H2O is going cosmic... kinda.

Growing water use is already overtaxing limited supplies from nearly all of the region's cross-border rivers, streams and aquifers.

Asteroid Bennu keeps delivering new discoveries.

Studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and

Not sure how to store your wine? Here's an easy primer.

Droughts lasting multiple years are becoming more common and extreme around the globe, expanding by about 50,000 square kilometres annually

Isaac Chotiner interviews the climate scientist Daniel Swain about why the California wildfires raged out of control and how the Los Angeles area became so vulnerable to catastrophe.

Here's how to clean a menstrual cup correctly, featuring expert-approved tips on what to do, menstrual cup cleaners to use, and things to avoid.