Around 65 million years ago, an asteroid roughly six miles across slammed into Earth at more than 40 times the speed of sound. The impact triggered global devastation, and the documentary examines how ...

Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.

Extreme geomagnetic storms could impact Earth twice as strongly as thought after researchers found a statistical bias may ...

Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past ...

The Earth is rotating faster than at any point since modern measurements began, and scientists are still working to ...

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 ...

Some great ideas shake up the world. For centuries, the outermost layer of Earth was thought to be static, rigid, locked in place. But the theory of plate tectonics has rocked this picture of the ...

A GPS-based algorithm is used to identify where stress has been building up. The massive slab of ice broke off from one of Greenland's largest glaciers and has been drifting away since. One day, a ...

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 ...

There are three things that I remember from my high-school Earth-science class: the swirling pink cover of the study book designed to help us pass New York State’s year-end test, the football player ...

The study of Earth science isn’t just for students who are interested in how our planet works. It’s also for those who are passionate about addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change, ...