Astronaut Nicole Stott, who has made it her mission to promote the healing power of art and the need to protect our planet, ...

New research has revealed details of the lead-up to a tremor: a slow and steady period of displacements at a well-defined stress point in Earth's crust is a required trigger for giant seismic events. ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth ...

Sucerquia and colleagues selected five sets of spherical moons and their neighboring planets, including Earth and the moon ... stability," Sucerquia told Live Science in an email.

Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...

It was also the first year in recorded history that Earth’s average temperature was ... We are at a critical time and supporting science journalism is more important than ever.

Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center In a string of ever-hotter years, 2023 stood out: It was the warmest on record (though 2024 will likely surpass it), with ...

"The origin and diversification of complex life on Earth remains one of the most profound and enduring questions in natural science," said Jingjun Liu, a doctoral student in Earth and planetary ...

But it may have once been a blue world like Earth. “Bringing [samples] back will revolutionize our understanding of Mars and indeed our place in the solar system,” NASA’s top science ...

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate ... If given unlimited time, science could probably develop models that more fully captured what we’re watching play out.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s climate, scientists have identified the source: the Zavaritskii volcano in the remote Kuril Islands. For almost 200 years ...

In particular, the ESE department has some links to international space missions. I chose to pursue my PhD at ESE for the chance to get involved in some of these missions. Amelie Roberts Planetary ...