Things are getting hotter and hotter here on Earth, and global warming has everyone panicking. But let us try a wild idea: ...

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the evidence is how many independent observations lead to the same answer.

Earth’s deep past leaves plenty of unanswered questions. None currently proves an alien visit, but scientists know the ...

Scientists have discovered that magma deep inside Earth can store surprising amounts of extra oxygen, potentially revealing a ...

AGU is an international non-profit scientific association with 60,000 members in 137 countries. Since 1962, it annually ...

Most scientists think that Earth and Mars took shape this way from rocky pieces swirling around the young sun around 4.5 ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

At the request of NASA (Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division), the National Academies is initiating “ESAS 2028,” the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space ...

Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing ...

The study of Earth science isn’t just for students who are interested in how our planet works. It’s also for those who are passionate about addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change, ...