Some NASA Earth science missions have been told to prepare termination plans given the potential for major budget cuts in the ...

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Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

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SpaceX successfully launched Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...

The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Rapley outlines the Antarctic’s incredibly important role in stabilizing Earth’s climate. As a professor of climate science at University College London and the longtime director of the ...