Featuring the world’s largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture these mysterious phenomena in more ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its striking ... nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal ...

A new computer model shows blobs of cooler rocks ... geophysicists can draw conclusions about the structure and composition of the Earth and examine the processes that take place inside it.

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and between the atmosphere and biosphere, and they help researchers and ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Ranging from September 2004 to December 2023, it spans multiple levels of the atmosphere from ground level up to the lower edge of space, about 110 kilometers above Earth's surface. The region ...

"In shock compression, the thermal self-emission from the heated sample is typically captured and fitted to the Planck black body model ... planet's inner structure and its thermal history.