A research team led by geophysicists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides an explanation for ...

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

This technology offers a solution to the continuous accumulation of space debris, such as defunct satellites and spent rocket stages.

Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This ...

The tropics are beginning to wake up and there are now two tropical waves the National Hurricane Center has highlighted.

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local ...

New research links dinosaur extinction to major changes in landscapes and river shapes. Scientists have found flourishing ...

The essential processes that continuously shape the surface of the Earth: weathering, erosion, and deposition. Weathering is the breakdown of rocks and minerals through physical (mechanical) and ...