For decades, satellites have played a crucial role in our understanding of the remote polar regions. The ongoing loss of ...

A new study in Cell reveals that species living miles beneath the ocean’s surface have independently evolved the same genetic mutation. These species, which diverged on the tree of life millions of ...

The Guinness World Record for the oldest Earth rock is currently held by the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, which is listed as ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

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

Eric Ralls was born and raised in East Texas, where his family's engagement in the oil and real estate sectors exposed him from an early age to the intricate balance between human development and ...

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

Earth's oceans may have displayed a very different color several billion years ago. This hypothesis emerges from a recent ...

A simulation on the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories ...

NASA spotted a circle of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, and the image is still breathtaking over 10 years later.