Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

And, as usual, we’ll be learning some useful new vocabulary too. But first I have a question for you, Neil. Everyone knows ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...

A fascinating celestial event is on the horizon as asteroid 2024 RF, a space rock approximately 50 feet in diameter, is set to pass near Earth on September 6. This asteroid, about the length of a ...

A directory and analysis of the open source ecosystem in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, biodiversity and natural resources.

The upcoming Alien TV show, called Alien: Earth, is almost upon us ... bioweapons and find themselves in the Zeta2 Reticuli system (aka the same region of space where Ripley's crew went and ...

All students in NSM are required to complete the Capstone Requirement but there are no specific Capstone courses in Earth Science. Earth Science majors may satisfy the Capstone in a number of ways by ...