Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

Henry C. Wu, Scientific Officer, GERICS, discusses the role of evidence and science-based solutions for global climate ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Andy Weir’s bestselling story The Martian predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters has uncovered evidence of an extreme ancient solar storm that struck Earth over 14,000 years ago, during the waning days of the ...

Ancient Moon dust, meteorite traces and Apollo samples are helping NASA scientists rethink where Earth’s water truly came ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...

Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.