Pinpointing when early land plants colonized terrestrial environments and began influencing Earth's systems is a core ...

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes ...

Earth’s green center has been drifting steadily for decades, reflecting a change in where vegetation grows most intensely.

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

Scientists traced the mysterious global vibration back to a single, 650-foot wave violently trapped inside a remote waterway.

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Why do some places wait 1,000 years to see a total solar eclipse while others get two in a decade? The surprising orbital ...

Several studies have predicted that not all geomagnetic reversals have been discovered, but it was unknown in which periods they might be hidden. Researchers led by the National Institute of Polar ...

On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a ...