Featuring Geo Rutherford This week’s episode features special guest Geo Rutherford, who you almost certainly know (at least ...

Smithsonian geologist Gabriela Farfan studies corals, gemstones and other minerals for clues to changing oceans and environments.

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...

Neither famous number is as simple as it first sounds. The real question is how much uncertainty each one can realistically ...

The phenomenon, which involves the geographic poles, is distinct from when the magnetic poles move. The planet's solid crust ...

Flat Earth theory can be tested without relying on space photographs or one institution. Several independent observations ...

When Earth formed billions of years ago, its metallic core was wrapped in a global ocean of molten rock, which eventually ...

Halley's Comet produces not one but two annual meteor showers. Its orbit comes close to Earth's at two different points, so our planet encounters the comet's debris twice each year — once during the ...

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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. Reuters reveals the rise of ‘heat storms.’ They now swarm the globe, ...

New research reveals that molten rock can absorb far more oxygen than expected, potentially helping explain how Earth's ...

International Sloth Day celebrates the fascinating biology, ancient ancestors, hidden ecosystems, and remarkable adaptations ...