From the lithium in your phone to the water in your tap, Earth science shapes every corner of modern life-and this week, it's finally in the spotlight. The post Remember Earth science class? Turns out ...

The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...

Earth has just acquired a new best friend in space – a small asteroid named 2025 PN7. Not quite a moon, it has been moving in ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

When scientists first introduced the idea of planetary boundaries in 2009, it seemed like a theoretical red line—an abstract ...

A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets.