Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

An exhibition to Thirst after  Our 2018 TOI litfest and my recent volume for the tricentenary of Mumbai’s mystical Parsi well were both titled Waternamah. This week I again immersed myself in  the ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

New images reveal that the strange Martian stripes on the slopes are formed by avalanches of dry dust, not liquid water.

Four years ago, summer floods in Limburg—in the south of the Netherlands—drastically altered the riverbed of the Meuse, ...

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

This year, head to Tomales Bay in Northern California to discover the magical "Northern Lights of the Sea" for yourself.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...