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Earth in 250 million years won't be the planet we know and love today. Plate tectonics theory reveals how plates comprising Earth's outer shell glide atop the mantle, causing continents to drift apart or come together. Business...

Mother Nature has reclaimed a former gravel extraction area in Maasvalley Riverpark, a 2,500-hectare nature reserve straddling the Belgium-Netherlands border...

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The Earth’s atmosphere does not act like a greenhouse. The analogy was partially developed to help students understand the apparent disparity between energy coming in from the sun and leaving...

Forget everything you think you know about Mars. In a study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists confirm that there is snow on the Red Planet. It’s not what you might think, however. Mars experiences explosions of...

If you find yourself wanting more after yesterday's highly-anticipated total solar eclipse, don’t fret. In just 2,422 days, or approximately seven years, another “once in a lifetime” event will occur in the United States....

Public Release: 13-Aug-2017 Goldschmidt Conference From Eurekalert New geochemical research indicates that existing theories of the formation of the Earth may be mistaken...

We may be one step closer to finding a “second home” for humans, thanks to research conducted by an international team of astronomers. By observing wobbles in Tau Ceti, a sun-like star 12 light years away, scientists...

Just a fantastic viewpoint~ctm From NASA NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik photographed Super Typhoon Noru in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on August 1, 2017, as the International Space Station passed overhead...

If you grew up loving Men in Black and Independence Day, we may have found the gig for you. NASA is hiring a “planetary protection officer” to defend Earth from alien contamination - and the job comes with a six-figure...

If you grew up loving Men in Black and Independence Day, we may have found the gig for you. NASA is hiring a “planetary protection officer” to defend Earth from alien contamination, and the job comes with a six-figure...

Will Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, be the next rock humans aspire to reach after visiting Mars? According to new research published today in Science Advances, possibly so...

For years, scientists have assumed that the interior of the Moon is dry. However, a new study of satellite data has located numerous volcanic deposits around the moon - which could indicate large quantities of water trapped...

In the event that Earth is struck by an asteroid, the sun goes supernova or the planet is soaked in gamma ray bursts in an extreme energetic explosion, the last surviving creatures won't be cockroaches - they will be tardigrades...

If you didn’t want to be an astronaut before today, you will now. Recently, NASA scientists aboard the International Space Station had the honor of watching the northern lights — also known as the aurora borealis —...

1,000 to 520 million years ago, Earth's climate was undergoing dramatic changes. From icy extremes in what some have termed Snowball Earth, to warmer conditions as an increase in oxygen led to the Cambrian explosion of biodiversity,...