After delivering facts about metals and exuberantly showing off “cool rocks,” Laura Branch veered totally off the topic of chemistry in her Earth System ...

Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA's EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source ...

NASA is teaming up with Microsoft to create an AI chatbot designed to make it easier to access and understand scientific data ...

Righetti High School science teacher Laura Branch has inspired countless students to explore the wonders of science and ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

After the last global ice age, Earth’s frozen state transitioned rapidly into a ... which was published on November 5 in the ...

an early-Earth geologist and assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is insatiably curious about what our planet was like during ancient eons rife with meteoritic ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...