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

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 ...

Why Don’t We Notice Earth Spinning? We do not feel Earth moving beneath our feet because its rotation is smooth and steady. What we notice are changes in motion, not constant motion itself. That is ...

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 ...

When we talk about climate change, we tend to focus on its more tangible effects: extreme heat, ocean warming, melting glaciers, and so on. But anywhere from 500 meters to a few kilometers beneath our ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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 ...

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

The flat Earth conspiracy varies, but usually involves a large disc shaped world with a relatively tiny sun and moon circling above it like lamps above a table. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, ...