Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from inorganic materials.

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.

S cientists have found that it’s possible to generate electric power from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his triumph was an electrifying moment in more ways than one ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

As emer­gency au­thor­i­ties and vol­un­teers in South­east Asia con­tin­ue to deal with the af­ter­math of a 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake which left hun­dreds dead and in­jured, the Min­is­ter of ...

The total angular momentum of Earth's spin, the moon's spin and the moon's orbit is very large — far higher than for any other terrestrial planet. So how did we get so much momentum? Plus ...

Study opens new doors for studying how meteorite impacts might have influenced Earth. In Western Australia, researchers have made a significant discovery: they have found the oldest meteorite ...

Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds.