This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

A paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London chronicles the age of the famous and fascinating massive reptiles Riley Black The discovery of worms and snails confirms that these still ...

Sep. 30, 2024 — Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 meters taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will appoint the Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space (CESAS) to support scientific progress in Earth system ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere, NASA's ER-2 aircraft is the agency's highest-flying airborne ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

It’s easy to write bugs off as pests, but consider the ways in which they have positively impacted our lives Barrett Klein New research has revealed that the mysterious white substance found ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

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The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the ...