The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Researchers are exploring the idea that one hemisphere of Earth, dominated by the Pacific Ocean, is losing internal heat ...

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At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

While much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular. At the equator, thousand-kilometer-long waves persist amid the chaos. In both the ocean and ...

Some days really are longer than others. And now scientists know by precisely how much. Using a laser gyroscope, scientists have measured variations in Earth’s rotation rate smaller than a millionth ...

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

You can see all sorts of cool stuff, like nebulae and comets, from Earth with just some binoculars or a consumer telescope. But if you want research-quality images of distant galaxies, you have a ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Science combines strong classroom and field-based instruction with internationally recognized research. The department offers ...

Humans are traveling farther into space than ever before. We look at the physics of launch – how to send something up and how it can come crashing back down. Now is an exciting time for space ...