Over time, natural processes like floods and volcanoes deposit layers of rock on the Earth’s surface and to delve through…
In this 1957 photo, engineers at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (now NASA’s Glenn Research Center) check a model of…
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams began their mission Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EST, as they…
Since the spring of 2005, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory has detected increasing volcanic unrest at Augustine Volcano…
In the South Pacific, south of Late Island along the Tofua volcanic arc in Tonga, the volcanic island Home Reef…
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, on February 18, 1930. Many key questions…
On October 1, 2005, El Salvador’s Santa Ana Volcano, also known as the Ilamatepec Volcano, erupted for the first time…
The Esperanza Fire started on Oct. 26 in the dry brush near Palm Springs, Calif. By the time it was…
Vivid colors belie the arid landscape of northern Chile where the Atacama Desert, one of the world’s driest, meets the…
