A doughnut-shaped structure almost 3,000 kilometers beneath our feet has been discovered by scientists, providing new clues ...

Biocrust, also called cryptobiotic soil, is a "community of tiny, dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the ...

Scientists at ANU have discovered a doughnut-shaped area in Earth's liquid outer core that could help explain mysteries about ...

As Earthlings, we’re curious about whether alien civilizations like ours are out there or if they exist at all—which is why ...

It may just be a thin layer of gas but it protects life on earth. The global attempt to repair it is one of the greatest ...

SINGAPORE, (REUTERS) – The world’s ozone layer is on “the road to long-term recovery” despite a destructive volcanic eruption ...

What damage do rockets inflict on the Earth’s all-too-important ionosphere? Lying at the edge of the planet’s atmosphere and outer space some 50 to 400 miles above the surface, the ionosphere ...

Researchers focused on analyzing the smaller waves that travel after an earthquake, which can help analyze portions of the ...

The ozone layer is a part of Earth’s atmosphere that captures some ... Ozone’s importance alone isn’t why it’s in the headlines all the time. If you’ve glanced at a newspaper or browsed ...

The first "scientific health check" reveals that most global systems have exceeded the stable conditions that supported the ...

"All asteroids have this layer of sand, called regolith, on top of them, and when you shoot them, it's the regolith that dissipates a lot of the impact energy," Ghosh said. "We can infer from the ...

A daring spacewalk will expose all four Polaris Dawn crew members to the vacuum of space while wearing and testing SpaceX's ...