For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions ...

The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two decades' worth of satellite data has revealed. Measurements from NASA's twin GRACE satellites and GRACE follow-on missions have shown that ...

All over the world, fresh water is disappearing, and a new analysis reveals that much of it is entering the ocean, with drying continents now contributing more to the alarming rise in global sea ...

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.

NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...