Half of the original mass of India and Eurasia is missing, upending how geologists believed tectonic interactions worked.
A new study proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins – a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.
Humanity is about to deepen its understanding of Earth's winds. The European Space Agency has secured a rocket launch deal for its wind-tracking Aeolus satellite, which is now expected to enter orbit before the end of 2017.
The Global Seed Vault is a vast storehouse far north of the Arctic Circle. In it are half a billion seeds from around the world. The vault is meant to safeguard humanity against losing vital food stocks to extinction, natural disaster, nuclear war or climate change.
Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth’s life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury.
Researchers working in Greenland have found traces of microbial life in our planet's most ancient rocks. The discovery pushes back the oldest evidence of life on Earth by about 220 million years, showing just how habitable our planet was during its earliest stages.
The region where the earthquake struck is geologically active. The shaking was caused by movement in the Tyrrhenian Basin, a seismically active area beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Here, the ground is actually spreading apart,
Discovery of a time-resolved supernova signal in Earth's microfossils. According to the researcher's analyses, our solar system spent one million years to transit trough the remnants of a supernova.
While orbiting the sun, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has taken a look back at Earth, to also find Mars and Pluto in shot.
Earth has a new dance partner, a quasi-moon named 2016 H03.
Ingredients crucial for the origin of life on Earth, including the simple amino acid glycine and phosphorus, key components of DNA and cell membranes, have been discovered at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
When it comes to hurricanes, environmental engineer Ana Barros says there are two sides to the story.
A 3,000 kilometer thick layer of hot compressed rock sandwiched between Earth
Physicists have now provided the first major results of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, including an unprecedented look at the interaction between the magnetic fields of Earth and the sun.
When we published a paper in 2013 finding 97% scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, what surprised me was how surprised everyone was. Ours wasn't the first study to find such a scientific consensus. Nor was it the second. Nor were we the last.
