A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

An international research team may have found an explanation for seismic anomalies, the noticeable deviations in the behavior of earthquake waves, in Earth's inner core.

Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the Earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of it sits housed in a ...

Beneath nearly two million square miles of Pacific Ocean lies a landmass larger than Greenland—one that remained hidden from ...

Near-surface water ice could supply essential resources for future human exploration on the Red Planet. Before sending people ...

A 2023 astronaut photo shows three dark hills, or mesas, towering above part of the Sahara desert in southern Mauritania. The ...

This event is part of the Geography, Earth Science, and Oceanography (GEOS) Seminars for Fall 2025. GEOS is a lecture series hosted by the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...