It is with a heavy heart that I announce that NASA Earth Science Communications has directed The Earth Observer to conduct an ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Earth keeps getting warmer because more energy from sunlight stays trapped in the climate system. Scientists refer to this as ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

The world’s biggest Earth science conference had a shocking backdrop this year, with the Trump administration announcing that ...

Earth is taking in more energy than it releases back to space—a growing "energy imbalance" that is fueling global warming. A ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

Human activities increasingly lead to climate change, overuse of water, hazards and the destruction of biodiversity — to name just a few. Earth scientists need to take on the challenge of serving ...

Deep beneath our feet, far below the crust and mantle, Earth’s metallic heart is not as sealed off as geologists once assumed ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet racing around its star in under 11 hours. Despite being blasted by intense ...