With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...

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The Fram2 crew will be the first people to observe the polar regions from low Earth orbit, and they'll work on experiments ...

The recently launched Fram2 mission, which is funded and led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, will attempt to grow ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

SpaceX successfully launched Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space ...

Rapley outlines the Antarctic’s incredibly important role in stabilizing Earth’s climate. As a professor of climate science at University College London and the longtime director of the ...