A nearby planet may be more Earth-like than previously thought, with new data suggesting that it may be a strong candidate ...

Human activity is draining oxygen from marine waters, and it's past time to take this crisis seriously. This phenomenon has only occurred five times within the last four decades. Hundreds of fires are ...

A layer of rock roughly 700 kilometers below Earth’s surface contains water locked inside minerals under extreme pressure and ...

Scientists have identified a hidden feedback loop that may explain how Earth has regulated its climate for tens of millions ...

As the Solar System orbits the center of the Milky Way every 250 million years or so, it repeatedly passes through the galaxy ...

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing ...

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth.

Right now, you could be unknowingly standing on top of a mountain. Though it sounds like a fantastical feature of Jules Verne's Journey to The Center of the Earth, subterranean mountains are real, ...

Earth/space science teachers educate students on the four basic areas of scientific study classified as part of earth science: oceanography, astronomy, meteorology and geology. Earth scientists play a ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia. These ancient rocks show that water was likely already ...

Learn more about the department's name change from geological sciences to the Department of Earth Science, including the effect on degree names and curricula. The Department of Geological Sciences is ...