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

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

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

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

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 ...

An intense X2.3-class flare was released by the sun yesterday, followed by several M-class flares, which caused a series of radio blackouts around the world.

How did Earth's last mass extinction unfold? Explore what led to it, what was lost, and how life ultimately found ways to ...

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

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X2.3 solar flare on November 6th, 2024, causing shortwave radio blackouts in ...

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 ...

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

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