The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. If you include the ...

The Atacama Desert of Chile is largely considered the driest place on Earth, but recently saw the moon-like landscape ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows that detailed 3D elevation models could drastically ...

Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid ...

When most of us think about theweather on other planets, we imagine extreme conditions—boiling acid rain, methane snow, or ...

Warming temperatures are causing Arctic peatlands to expand, temporarily boosting carbon storage—but long-term stability remains uncertain.

The layers of Earth's internal structures. (Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Millions of years of natural crust cycling mixed what was once Earth's surface deep into the mantle. The ...

The Earth's inner core, long considered a solid and stable sphere, may be quite different. A recent study suggests that its surface is undergoing structural transformations, challenging our ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward, Earth’s inner core in changing shape.