With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

While life on Earth does usually find a way ... this continental collision may have sucked carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As a result, the planet drastically cooled, sea levels plummeted ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen ... Eiichi Tajika from the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of Tokyo. "It likely took some massive ...

During this time, oxygen accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere, which in turn had major ramifications for the evolution of life. But the reason why cyanobacteria needed those phycobilins remained a ...

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Mar. 26, 2025 — New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of ...

A spacecraft's sample return capsule was detected entering the Earth's atmosphere using acoustic ... team saw an opportunity for some pretty cool science, using the sample return as an analog ...

In Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Tsukuba and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan explored the likelihood that Earth's ...

This easy Earth Moon Sun paper craft is perfect for some out of this world fun when learning about space. Here's how to make ...

This is thanks in large part to its status as the only other planetary body in the solar system known to host an atmosphere ... Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science ...