Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Imagine being able to watch Earth breathe, capturing each subtle shift in the ground, tracking everything from tectonic ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

A team of astronomers believe that our planet’s gravitational pull could alter the surface of Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid ... to publish in The Planetary Science Journal and are currently ...

Geoscientists have uncovered that ancient volcanoes emitted carbon dioxide for millions of years beyond their active periods, ...

Volcanic activity there slowly separates the tectonic ... How Many Continents Are There?: Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less ...

N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...

An eruption of Indonesia's Lewotobi Laki-laki stratovolcano rained debris and ash on villages on the island of Flores.

New science experiments and research samples, delivered on Tuesday by the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, were installed on Wednesday on the International Space Station (ISS). Meanwhile, science ...

The passage of Comet C/2023 A3 presented an opportunity to gain insights into the near-Sun environment and solar space weather.

The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak Monday night into Tuesday with a chance for sky-gazers to spot fireballs.