They're all around us: sensors and satellites, radars and drones. These tools form vast remote sensing networks that collect ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Two next-generation satellite missions announced Thursday will help NASA better understand Earth and improve capabilities to ...

Scientists have long debated whether most of Earth's vital liquid was delivered via icy comets or was homemade ...

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

NASA has selected two new Earth observation missions namely STRIVE and EDGE to better understand changes in the atmosphere, ...

Earth froze over about 717 million years ago as ice spread from the poles to the equator, plunging the planet into a “snowball Earth.” ...

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...