The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

Step into the heart of nature and experience the unparalleled beauty of Earth’s most stunning natural landscapes. From the towering peaks of the Himalayas to the vast, open plains of Africa ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

The essential processes that continuously shape the surface of the Earth: weathering, erosion, and deposition. Weathering is ...

How Earth's atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been revealed by an international team of researchers.

Blobs of rock are dripping off the underside of North America, likely caused by the remnants of a tectonic plate deep in ...