While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

Researchers have developed a new technique by studying the age of ancient grains of sand from beaches, rivers and rocks from around the world to reveal previously hidden details of the Earth&apos ...

Researchers will slowly melt the ice over the course of seven weeks, releasing ancient dust, volcanic ash, and diatoms, which ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

This month, the National Museum of Natural History opened “ NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History,” a new exhibition that gives museum visitors a dynamic ...

April 22 is Earth Day, which as been celebrated on this day since 1970. Here’s what you should know about its history.

Back to Article List Brief history of earth imaging This Earth Day, we can remember one of the catalysts: an image of the entire Earth taken from above.

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

Zotov predicts Earth’s rotation may soon decelerate once again. If he’s right, this sudden speeding-up could prove to be just ...