Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...
Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.
Earth's cosmic neighbourhood is more dynamic than imagined, hosting temporary 'mini-moons' captured by gravity and ...
They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect ...
Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...
NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.
As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...
The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.
On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...
A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...
Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...