Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

The mission, jointly operated by the United States and India, will measure minute changes to land, ice, and ecosystems around ...

Because life arose in the largely unknown surface conditions of Earth’s early history, answering these and other questions remains a challenge. Several seminal experiments in this topic have been ...

The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface can substantially vary over decades, ...

Muon tomography, or muography, is the practice of using muons generated by cosmic rays interacting with Earth’s atmosphere to image structures on Earth’s surface, akin to producing an X-ray.

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...