Understanding Earth's Crust Earth's crust ranges from 5 to 70 kilometers in thickness and serves as the planet's outermost ...

Do you ever find yourself wondering about the rocks beneath your feet? If so then the USGS has exactly the tool you're ...

The Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is baffling scientists with an inexplicable speed boost not caused by gravity. Explore the ...

In reality, however, life has been found far under the surface in places where scientists would have once thought it ...

The ESCAPADE mission, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, is the first dual-satellite mission to ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

A new study analyzed four sets of fossil footprints, including cat-like tracks in 29-million-year-old volcanic ash in Oregon.

EU researchers are exploring how undersea communication cables can double-up as environmental and seismic sensors—a potential ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Saturn's Enceladus moon might be capable of supporting life, according to data collected by NASA's Cassini mission and ...

Cleaner air is making marine clouds dimmer and oceans warmer, revealing a hidden climate trade-off as pollution declines.

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in ...