When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that ...

Human activities increasingly lead to climate change, overuse of water, hazards and the destruction of biodiversity — to name just a few. Earth scientists need to take on the challenge of serving ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Rising global emissions of hydrogen over the past three decades have added to the planet's warming temperatures and amplified ...

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

Earth's diameter is roughly 7,926 miles. Earth orbits the Sun in approximately 365.25 days. Most of Earth's surface is water, and its atmosphere is mainly nitrogen and oxygen. Earth's average ...