On Earth, everything is moving. The planet spins, the tectonic plates shift and the spin axis wobbles, as do the magnetic ...

A hypothetical super-Earth, Dev Dilek, spirals into the young sun in this artist's rendering. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration Why our solar system missed out on having a ...

A new study suggests Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, challenging the idea that water-rich material from beyond Jupiter played a major role. If correct, Earth’s ...

Magma moving beneath a volcano can make the ground rise, sink or shift sideways. Measuring these changes gives scientists clues about where magma is stored and how it travels. A study published in ...

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin (WSB), a marine-based sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, contains enough ice to increase the global-mean sea level by 3–4 m. The geometry of the WSB makes its ice ...

Fragments of a long-disappeared ancient giant land mass have been discovered buried deep beneath parts of the modern continents that once formed it, according to an international team led by Chinese ...

As the seasons change, Earth transfers mass from some locations to pack on the gigatons in others. Seasonal changes redistribute enough water around Earth to shift the planet’s center of mass back and ...

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) historically drove a regular wet-dry cycle, but climate change might’ve hijacked this ...

Psychology has become one of the most popular courses at university. That’s no surprise as the insights it gives to our behaviour can help in a huge variety of careers For Niamh Mulcahy, 21, ...

A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will produce a revised, expanded, and online version of On Being a Scientist: A Guide to the Responsible Conduct of ...

Levels of dust in the atmosphere have dropped significantly over the past two decades. This is good news for our lungs, but could contribute to increased global warming. Satellites are the best tool ...

Four decades of satellite records reveal that roughly 80% of global drylands are experiencing extreme swings in interannual ...