Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

The process, which existed for billions of years, would eventually turn lunar soil into a long-running archive of Earth's ...

Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

China has completed construction of the world’s most powerful hypergravity machine, a device designed to compress space and time to simulate extreme events like dam and earthquake disasters.

If ancient Martian lakes persisted under seasonal ice rather than thick permanent ice, features on Mars that have been ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

According to the scientists, this reduction of cloud droplets near the cloud top is due to two processes: entrainment, where ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing instrument—that can observe cloud structures at the scale of a single centimeter. The ...