Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, ...

A puzzlingly regular waxing and waning of Earth's biodiversity may ultimately trace back to our solar system's bobbing path around the Milky Way, a new study suggests. Every 60 million years or so, ...

Scientists have discovered a new, persistent pattern in Earth's inner radiation belt using data from the twin NASA Van Allen Probes spacecraft. Most surprisingly, the pattern is produced by the slow ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...

Excessive displacement of the earth's crust has been limited, at least since the later Paleozoic, to well-defined belts, here called the earth's "mobile belts," which are virtually continuous and form ...

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers suggest that Earth once had a giant, ...

In a world made small and accessible by technology, it is easy to forget the magnitude of nature’s infinite complexity. But sometimes technology reminds us, such as when trawling planet Earth on ...