Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

This map shows you. Filling in the blanks of your historical knowledge would probably be easier if you could readily visualize when and where events occurred in relation to other events. Fortunately, ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Joining it's twin to continue decades of research mapping the height of the Earth's oceans, the Sentinel 6B satellite is set ...

A joint project between NASA and the Indian space program, NISAR will give us a look at the ways Earth's surface is changing.

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI). Started in 2019 and later infused with $320 million from the bipartisan ...