The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

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

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

“While a direct connection between life on Earth’s surface and the ICB (inner-outer core boundary) remains distant, what ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Previous studies found that variations in solar energy reaching the Earth’s surface were particularly ... aspects of climate and environmental change but are also of significant importance ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.