Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

Far beyond the blue sky and the familiar glow of the aurora, Earth is wrapped in a vast, ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches almost to the Moon. NASA’s new Carruthers Geocorona mission is ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Scientists discovered Earth’s magnetic field is weakening over the Atlantic Ocean, but what does that mean for life on the ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...