Tragic slips in the Bay of Plenty highlight how geology, heavy rainfall and climate change are combining to amplify a largely ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have ...

On Thursday morning, a significant landslide struck the Mount Maunganui Beachside Holiday Park, resulting in a major rescue and recovery operation that is expected to last through the weekend. Just ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

For decades, astrophysicists have wrestled with a basic but brutal question: how did black holes in the early Universe grow ...

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

In inertial confinement fusion, a capsule of fuel begins at temperatures near zero and pressures close to vacuum. When lasers compress that fuel to trigger fusion, the material heats up to millions of ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

Earth’s average temperature last year hovered among one of the three hottest on record, while the past three years indicate ...

Earth's magnetic field was struck by a "severe" solar storm Monday (Jan. 19), triggering vibrant auroras in the U.S. and ...