Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape—they're also vital engines for life on Earth ...

The ocean is a vital part of our planet's climate system. Through its global circulation patterns, the ocean draws vast quantities of our planet's heat and carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

It takes lithium and cobalt to build the batteries that power electric vehicles and e-bikes, nickel and rare earth elements ...

Earth’s interior can be divided into several ... almost lost in the noise of the churning oceans and atmosphere.” Some prior ...

Damaging Cluster of UK Winter Storms Driven by Swirling Polar Vortex Miles Above Earth Mar. 27, 2025 — Powerful winter storms which led to deaths and power outages in the UK and Ireland were ...

Planets can be extremely hot when they are born, and new computational experiments show that such planets would have an atmosphere composed of a homogenous mixture of hydrogen and water. As the ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Inner planets are the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are collectively characterized by a solid surface and small size relative to the outer gas giants.