We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA's EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...

Scientists have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star 4,000 light years from here, giving us a humbling glimpse into Earth's likely fate.Published in Nature Astronomy, the planet, ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Oct. 30, 2024 — Energy-making chloroplasts from algae have been inserted into hamster cells, enabling the cells to photosynthesize light, according to new research in Japan. It was previously ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

However, the research highlights that plastics’ impacts are interconnected, destabilizing the Earth system in ways previously overlooked. “The impacts of plastics on the Earth system are complex and ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

Earth system history, climate and climate change, marine and freshwater systems, and ecology. It also considers the interactions between humans and these systems. Online image search results ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...