2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

As the extraordinary pace of astronomical discovery carries on, we increasingly see that the stuff of life is spread ...

A new space environment report from the ESA shows that Earth's space junk problem got significantly worse throughout 2024.

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments ...

Auroras are possible over the U.S. tonight (March 25) as a "moderate" geomagnetic storm hits Earth. UPDATE: The Northern ...

Mar. 28, 2025 — Why do some plants thrive in specific regions but not in others? A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over millions of years.