At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Other reasons for the shift in signs, according to the New York Times report, could be the changing size of constellations or the notably missing "Ophiuchus" constellation, which was not included in ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for Einstein's general relativity may rewrite that rule.

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

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

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

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

When most people hear the term Earth science, they think of fossils tucked into stone, or perhaps the study of volcanoes and earthquakes. While those are indeed part of the field, Earth science is far ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...