Learn more about the water molecules on the moon, which may trace their origins to the materials that made Earth and comets.

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet's land drier and saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access ...

Drought is projected to affect 75% of the world's population by 2050. Take that in. ‘Drylands’ now make up nearly half of all ...

World Soil Day is an international event dedicated to raising awareness about the critical importance of healthy soils for ...

Soil, often perceived as lifeless dirt, is a dynamic ecosystem teeming with bacteria, many of which naturally carry ...

Earth's name, unlike other planets named after Greco-Roman deities, originates from Old English "eorþe," meaning soil or ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

Most consumers don’t know that farmers are increasingly using more sustainable methods to enhance agricultural resiliency and ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 33 percent of the Earth's soils are already ...

but those may have come from Earth because the meteorites were exposed to the planet's soil and atmosphere while colliding with the planet. The latest analysis of the samples retrieved from Ryugu ...

Aristilde and her team have discovered a new way that nature cycles phosphorus, a finding that uncovers a missing piece of Earth’s phosphorus cycle, which continues to puzzle scientists. Her study ...