New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past … The post Big dams may have changed ...

By trapping trillions of gallons of water behind nearly 7,000 dams since 1835, enough to fill the Grand Canyon twice, humans have redistributed the planet’s mass enough to cause a phenomenon known as ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have quietly nudged the very axis of our planet. As thousands of dams have been built ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

North Charleston Academic Magnet High School students win first at international NASA contest aimed to research growing crops ...

An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the ...

Hurricane forecasters and scientists rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. The Navy has decided to stop sharing the data.

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

In the stratosphere over Siberia, temperatures recently jumped nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, shoving the polar vortex off its North Pole perch.