The Moon’s surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometres across ...

UCSB Physics Professor Roger Freedman held our attention three years ago as he explained the wonders and understanding that ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

Rather than a volcanic winter, the Toba eruption 74,000 years ago resulted in several years of warm and dry weather, ...

How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Millions of people all over the world bring the climate crisis into sharp focus and promote environmental change by contributing to Earth Day every April. The Earth Day movement began 55 years ago ...