For almost 50 years, a brass and aluminium sphere weighing 900 pounds has circled our planet. NASA launched LAGEOS, the Laser ...

Investigate the dynamic processes shaping our planet. Why and how do volcanoes erupt? Where do we look for oil and reliable water supplies? Why is our climate changing? The disciplines of earth ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to examine the surface of LHS 3844 b, a super-Earth 48.5 light-years away.

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

The ring, if it existed, may have cooled the Earth, causing a deep freeze and altering the future of life on this planet, including us You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

The tool is called “Your Name in Landsat", which allows users to type their name and instantly generate it using satellite ...

2:20 Earth’s core may be reversing rotation, study finds. Here’s why you don’t have to be alarmed Far below the Earth’s surface, thousands of kilometres beneath our feet, our planet’s core seems to be ...

Just over 4 billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle infiltrated a fracture in the young planet’s primordial crust. Over the following aeons, nearly all of the planet’s early crust melted back ...

A new study suggests that there may be a possible explanation to the exceptional warmth the planet experienced in 2023: a reduction in its reflectivity. By now it's common knowledge that 2023 was the ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...