Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

I’m excited to have the outdoors as my office. I really love being outside. Earth System Science Ph.D. student Ericka Boudreau is on her way to becoming a triple River Hawk. I enrolled in the Ph.D.

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is ... in a study recently published in Science Advances. Microbes have adapted ...

Sucerquia and colleagues selected five sets of spherical moons and their neighboring planets, including Earth and the moon ... stability," Sucerquia told Live Science in an email.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will appoint the Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) to support scientific progress in Earth system ...