A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

The aurora borealis has been the ultimate atmospheric tease for ages. We knew what ...

The discovery offers new insight into how fossils are preserved and how Earth naturally stores carbon over long periods of ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story The Martian predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

Scientists are trying to understand why the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere changed by about 90 parts per million (ppmv) between icy (glacial) and warmer (interglacial) periods in Earth’s history.

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...