Two diamonds formed 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface reveal a life-giving synchronicity between shifting continents ...

Recent findings have unveiled a startling reality: the Earth’s crust is showing signs of significant instability. From the land beneath Chicago’s urban infrastructure sinking at an alarming rate to ...

The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface can substantially vary over decades, according to a perspective article led by an international research team. The ...

When you think about a large asteroid impact, you might imagine a moment of devastation: a violent collision, a blast of heat ...

Astronomers have achieved the highest resolution ever obtained from the surface of Earth. They managed this feat by detecting light from distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz, equivalent ...

Sulfur is a critical component of Earth’s surface evolution owing to its dynamic roles as a redox buffer and nutrient as well as forming the basis for some of Earth’s earliest metabolisms. In this ...

How often do mountains collapse, volcanoes erupt or ice sheets melt? For Earth scientists, these are important questions as we try to improve projections to prepare communities for hazardous events in ...

Human activities such as food production, mining, transportation, and construction have extensively modified Earth’s land and marine environments, causing biodiversity loss, water pollution, soil ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

If you follow space news, then you've likely seen some of the stunning images of Earth as it appears from space. Sometimes these pictures are taken by spacecraft — like the famous pale blue dot photo ...