"The phenomenon is highly repeatable. We discovered an unplanned new technique for identifying objects entering the earth's ...

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.

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

Compare that to Earth, where the mass-fraction of water is just 0.02%. Yet if TOI-152b had been reduced by stellar radiation, there would be no water or atmosphere left at all. Instead ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Are Clouds’ Shapes Made? Explore the diverse world of cloud formations, from ground-level fog to high-flying cirrus ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team carried out simulations of how carbon emissions affect the upper atmosphere and orbital dynamics, in order to estimate the "satellite carrying capacity" of low-Earth orbit. These ...

The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth’s four major geologic ... mile-wide crater that ejected debris into the atmosphere and around the world. It’s not just ...