Latest articles by Stephanie Pappas
A seaborne sediment plume turns the Bering Sea green.
It's hard to believe this image was taken over Earth.
The last vestiges of an ancient volcano are visible from orbit.
Lake Natron's bizarre chemistry leads to beautiful colors.
The Siberian "megaslump" holds the remains of Pleistocene bison, horses and even cave lions.
A new map puts Antarctica into three-dimensional perspective with an aerial view of the continent's ice, created from 250 million satellite measurements.
Neuralink will aim to link the human brain to digital devices.
The bizarre roll cloud and the beautiful asperitas cloud are among the additions to the latest International Cloud Atlas.
A mysterious mech robot makes its debut for Amazon.
Rocks from the eastern shore of the Hudson Bay in Canada contain elements of some of Earth's earliest crust, new research finds.
No, Antarctica isn't busting out the green beer for St. Patrick's Day. But a new satellite image of the continent shows strange green ice floating in the Ross Sea.
A new map made with satellite radar data shows the sinking of California's San Joaquin Valley in deceptively tranquil colors.
A new enormous blob, called a Lyman-alpha nebula, is lit by a mysterious source.
The northern Caspian Sea sparkles in an icy new satellite image.
The Earth's geomagnetic field increased in intensity around the Levant during the late eighth century B.C. before rapidly weakening.
A hypothesis about meteorites gets put to the test in a new mission to the icy continent.
A new satellite image shows the disappearing Larsen Ice Shelf of Antarctica.
A convoy of massive tractors delivers supplies to Concordia research station in Antarctica, as seen in a satellite image captured from hundreds of miles above Earth.
You'll need a 3D printer, but you can have your own mini Death Star.
Records dating back to clay tablets from 720 B.C. reveal that the slowing of the Earth's rotation isn't as large as expected.
Humanity's future is uncertain, and physicist Stephen Hawking wants to reach for the stars.
A crisp view of Saturn's rings and one of its tiny moons makes big waves.
