Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

In an experiment simulating harsh Martian conditions, including X-ray radiation, scientists discovered that certain lichens ...

Historical context of GNSS in space. The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, ...

A new phylum of microbes has been discovered thriving in one of the least explored parts of Earth—the deep Critical Zone, a ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

The Pink Moon, April's full moon, will reach peak illumination April 12. The previous full moon was March's Worm Moon, which ...