NASA’s Cassini spacecraft detected an electrical circuit linking Saturn to its small moon Enceladus, revealing an invisible electromagnetic structure that stretches across hundreds of thousands of ...

We tend to think of gravity as being about as constant as it gets. It is the invisible anchor that keeps our feet on the ...

For an artist with only two official studio albums, Frank Ocean’s influence is unusually large, yet there is much more to his cultural impact than “Channel Orange” and “Blonde.” This influence began ...

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

Hereon researchers simulate long-term effects of wind and tidal wakes caused by wind turbines in the North Sea for the first ...

One of the ocean's saltiest regions has become 30 per cent less salty - sparking fears the Gulf Stream could be inching closer to a catastrophic collapse.

But scientists say a warming world is throwing off this balance. As Arctic ice melts, freshwater enters the North Atlantic — making the ocean water less dense, so it is less likely to sink. As a ...

Beneath the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland flows Earth’s largest waterfall, three times taller than Angel Falls — yet completely invisible from the surface. How can something so vast remain ...

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

Scientists have detected a major drop in salinity in one of the world’s saltiest ocean regions. The change could affect monsoons, marine life and global climate systems, raising new concerns about the ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - It is just one scenario among many, but by far the most cataclysmic.