A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...

A vast field of tall, skinny trees sways in a light breeze. In the future, poplar trees in a scene like this could be a ...

Eight-year-old Ella Doran adorably shares her take on science alongside her mom, Kara, an oceanographer at the USGS. While doing a fun experiment together, Kara explains her work studying coastal ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

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

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing ... of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The researchers analysed ...