A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ...

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A geologist found an undiscovered meteorite crater in Western Australia on Google Earth in 2007. Later drilling confirmed its ...

Molten rock deep inside Earth can take up an extra supply of oxygen under pressure, according to a new study. That finding ...

Flat Earth theory can be tested without relying on space photographs or one institution. Several independent observations ...

Unusual hydrogen signatures in volcanic rocks may come from Earth’s core. Simulations suggest ancient magma crystallization cannot explain the differences.

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...

Most scientists think that Earth and Mars took shape this way from rocky pieces swirling around the young sun around 4.5 ...

Warming air temperatures are causing glaciers to shrink by about 8% each decade. Human activity is putting serious strain on groundwater supplies around the world, a new study suggests. Forecasters ...

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 ...