For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

The Solar System is far more diverse in size than it appears from Earth. From tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants, each ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

In 2015, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope identified one of the most Earth like planets ever discovered, Kepler 452b. It orbits ...

In a new study published in Nature Sustainability an international team of scientists from the Earth Commission, convened by Future Earth, investigates how global biophysical boundaries need to be ...

Drexel’s graduate programs in Ecology, Evolution & Earth Systems—offered through the Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Science—prepare students to tackle some of the most pressing ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

People once believed the planet could always accommodate us. That the resilience of the Earth system meant nature would always provide. But we now know this is not necessarily the case. As big as the ...