NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

The Department of Geology has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences to better reflect the breath of its work.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding ...

Most volcanoes are born along fault lines that intersect Earth's tectonic plates, because this is where the planet's crust is weakest and magma from the mantle can easily rise to the surface.

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) offers undergraduate and graduate degrees with unique interdisciplinary study programs encompassing Geosciences, Meteorology, ...

The Conversation Africa asked volcano researcher Amdemichael Tadesse to explain what’s happening below the earth’s surface. How common is it for quakes in Ethiopia to trigger volcanic eruptions?

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is ... in a study recently published in Science Advances. Microbes have adapted ...