A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS ... N.H., while putting the finishing touches on her bachelor’s degree in environmental science with a geoscience option. I’m ...

giant spires of life poked from the Earth. Fossils of these mysterious stalks, dating to between 350 million and 420 million years ago, reveal “trunks up to 24 feet … high and as wide as 3 ...

Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings has been described as a complex network of diverse cultures and traditions. The Dwarves prefer to live beneath their favorite mountains, while Elves can be ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

Sucerquia and colleagues selected five sets of spherical moons and their neighboring planets, including Earth and the moon ... stability," Sucerquia told Live Science in an email.

Science: NASA scientists have warned that China's Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric power station, has the potential to slightly alter Earth's rotation. The massive dam, which spans ...

Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those materials might be found. A team from Swiss university ETH Zurich and the California Institute of ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Dr. Alice Alonso, using Landsat satellite data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption adapted from Laura Rocchio, NASA Landsat Science Outreach.

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...