A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of ...

In northern latitudes and high altitudes, the permafrost layer is a layer of earth that stays frozen year round. It’s that layer of permafrost that holds many mountain summits together. As climate ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Much of our understanding of Earth's past is derived from stratigraphic records exposed in rock outcrops or recovered from drilled cores. These records span immense time intervals, from thousands to ...

As a space scientist , every time I go outside with my family, I tell my children to look up at the sky. The front door of our home looks southeast ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...

From Earth spinning on its axis and orbiting the Sun to it precessing like a top, lots of factors affect which stars you can ...

Solar cycles, sea ice and rising electricity use all play a role. So does an unhealthy surprise that has been quietly hiding ...

In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the “Great Unconformity." ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

After analyzing three decades of satellite radar data, scientists have created the first continent-wide record of Antarctic ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers ...