Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

New research reveals the Moon may have been silently collecting Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years. Scientists now ...

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

This surprising study reveals that the “secret water vault” within Earth is one of the most consequential geological ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

There may be hidden layers to Earth’s core dictated by chemical composition. In A Nutshell Lab experiments suggest Earth’s ...

Strong evidence for liquid water at or near the Earth’s surface 4.3 billion years ago is presented by a team of scientists in the cover story of the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Nature. The scientists ...

Earth cross section showing the classic distinction between crust, mantle and core. But new research shows Earth's structure is far more complicated and may change over time. Analyzing an unusual ...

NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) discovered an unknown phenomenon from the International Space Station, 55 miles above Earth.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earth’s inner core, a solid metal ball gyrating within the molten outer core, may be both slowing down and changing shape. Recent analyses of earthquake waves have suggested that ...