As we celebrate Earth Month, we are kicking off a series of retrospectives on National Academies reports and activities ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

In today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world, the average person is more disconnected from nature than ever before. Most o ...

This photo provided by SpaceX shows the domed window of the Dragon capsule with a polar region of the Earth in the background ...

The mission is carrying four passengers in a unique orbit around Earth that has allowed humans to pass directly ... For Fram2 ...

The captivating footage was taken through the Dragon's Cupola, a unique, all-glass dome on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

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.