Many parts of Earth are covered and protected by a layer of organisms called a biocrust. The layer acts as a skin for the Earth, protecting landscapes and reducing long-term damage. But climate ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...

Climate-Change-Triggered 2023 Mega-Landslide Caused Earth to Vibrate for Nine Days Sep. 12, 2024 — A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that ...

The boundary between the ocean and the atmosphere, where the air and sea interact, is known as the sea surface microlayer.

Earth is getting a second moon—at least for ... Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming, and tech culture. He also is a top-rated product reviewer with ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

Back in the 1980s, scientists made the shocking discovery that human pollution had worn a hole clean through Earth's protective ozone layer ... cooperation and science-based decision-making ...

The oldest evidence of ... Live Science. But the new study shows that the moon has not had a magnetic field for at least 4.36 billion years. Their new study, published Friday (Sept. 6) in the ...

Examine, a free weekly newsletter covering science with a sceptical ... he unveiled a fifth layer of the Earth’s core: a searing ball of iron and nickel at the very heart of our planet.

Aged 69, the chemical engineer has already spent more than a year in space. And he’s far from the oldest person to fly beyond ...