Diana Lutz

Data recovered from seismometers in Antarctica are giving scientists the first detailed look at the Earth beneath the region.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will fly through the Pluto system on July 14 at an angle of 46 degrees to the plane of the dwarf planet’s orbit, piercing the plane and then passing through the shadows first of Pluto and then of its moon, Charon.

Scientists believe Jupiter’s moon Europa may have a global ocean beneath an outer shell of ice—an ocean that could be hospitable to life.

Beginning in the 1880s, coastal dunes in the United States were planted with European beachgrass in an attempt to hold the sand in place and prevent it from migrating.

Invasive plants and animals are almost universally lambasted for what they do to ecosystems, but giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands might have a different opinion.

At levels considered safe for human food, a common industrial pollutant called manganese can knock honey bees off their game.