Observations of large valley networks on today’s Mars suggest formation by flowing water. However, most climate models cannot sustain temperatures above...
According to new research, giant plumes of Saharan dust, transported across the Atlantic Ocean by trade winds, can suppress hurricane formation over the...
Detailed measurements from the Grand Finale phase of NASA’s Cassini mission revealed distinctive features of Saturn’s magnetic field. These features...
A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets is a first step toward a generalized theory of how precipitation and condensible...
Planetary researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center have used dry paleolakes and riverbeds to determine...
A team of Australian scientists and wildlife ecologists has captured koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time.
Old female koala showing natural...
The 2018 eruption of Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii was likely initiated by prolonged, and at times extreme, rainfall in the months leading up to the event,...
WASP-76b, a gas-giant exoplanet located some 640 light-years away in the constellation of Pisces, has a day side where temperatures climb above 2,400 degrees...
Complex chemical signals are triggered when water lands on a plant to help it prepare for the dangers of rain, according to a new study published in the...
Acquisition of freshwater is problematic for sea snakes living in oceanic environments that are distant from sources of freshwater associated with land....
By analyzing several years of weather radar observations in Finland, a research team led by University of Helsinki scientists has discovered that planes...
Snakebites, contrary to public opinion, increase after rainy years, not drought, according to a new study that examined two decades of rattlesnake bite...
Saturn’s hazy moon has surprisingly extreme rainstorms, according to new research published in the journal Nature Geoscience.
It’s raining on Titan....
Heavy rain on Mars reshaped impact craters and carved out river-like channels in the planet’s surface billions of years ago, according to a study by...
