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

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

A 2022 astronaut photo shows a thick blanket of snow covering Yellowstone Lake, transforming the frozen body of water into a ...

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

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

A new research paper, published in the Science Advances journal, has postulated that rocky planets like ours may be far more ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

For decades, climate science has focused on what happens on Earth and in our atmosphere, but new research suggests our planet’s long term rhythms are also being nudged by a neighbor. Scientists now ...

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 ...