Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

Scientists made a unique discovery in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola: dozens of fossilized bee nests inside ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive, hidden rock layer beneath Bermuda, over 12 miles thick, defying typical oceanic island ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

A massive and unique rock layer has been discovered deep beneath Bermuda, challenging existing geological theories and ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

Between September and November, Death Valley received 2.4 inches of rain, with 1.8 inches in November alone — breaking a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is turning green and getting brighter as it nears Earth. Scientists track the ancient space rock, ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has uncovered pale rocks rich in kaolinite clay on the floor of Jezero Crater, a mineral that forms ...

Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...