Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and chemicals circulate between rocky seafloors and subsurface oceans on worlds like ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

ETH News: Professor Robertsson, your department has just been renamed. What was the reason for the name change? Johan Robertsson: We were more than ready for this change. Over half the professors in ...

A recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters is the first to directly link earthquakes to climate ...

The University of Freiburg is establishing a new tenure track professorship in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, made possible by a 1.71 million euro ...

If there was ever any doubt the 2011 discovery by a post-doctoral student was indeed the hottest rock on Earth, new findings from a Western-led research team are putting that uncertainty to rest.

Scientists tracking the health of the planet now say humanity has pushed Earth beyond seven of the nine environmental limits ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed ...

Almost 48 years after it was collected, scientists believe a rock sample taken during an Apollo mission to the moon originated from Earth roughly four billion years ago. From Apollo 11 — the first ...