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 ...

A new study reveals that implementing enhanced weathering (EW), the practice of adding crushed basalt to soils, with U.S.

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 ...

Staff concerns about certain doctors were allegedly ignored. "He's going to end up in jail," a senior manager said of one.

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

NASA is beginning several months of commemoration of the beginning of the Space Age and the evolution of Earth science from space. Sixty years ago next week, the hopes of Cold War America soared into ...

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, ...