For centuries, humanity has gazed into the night sky, wondering if there are other planets capable of supporting life. Among ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

NASA and ISRO’s NISAR satellite will map Earth’s land and ice in 3D using dual-band radar, detecting movements as small as a centimeter to monitor disasters, land shifts, and climate changes.

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we learn why the City of Toronto thinks spending $1.4 billion to renaturalize ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...

The path of totality will carve an arc of darkness across the surface of our planet – at the height of the August tourist season ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since the Last Ice Age.

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Kosmos-482 has been orbiting the planet for more than 50 years, but scientists say it will re-enter earth's atmosphere sometime around 2 a.m. Eastern Saturday.

WASHINGTON — Sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, a Soviet-era spacecraft originally meant to land on Venus will re-enter the earth's atmosphere, dropping a half-ton mass of metal back to ...