We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

Scientists say exoplanet LHS 1140b shows promising signs that it could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for ...

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, ...

At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for decades ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

In a new review, scientists warn that this rapidly escalating, human-driven crisis threatens to upend the biosphere. The ...

Startup upgrades 'Earth Search Engine' to open new paths to high-resolution satellite imagery and data-driven insights.

Deep beneath submarine volcanoes, Earth may be running a natural “gold kitchen.” By analyzing volcanic glass from the ...

A team of Brazilian researchers discovered the first direct evidence that goethite—the mineral responsible for the brown ...