Boise State researchers are part of the team behind the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer, or EDGE, a satellite mission concept aimed at monitoring Earth’s land, ice and coastal regions that NASA ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

If we're to find extraterrestrial life in the universe, astronomers have pinpointed the best places to look for it. They have ...

Blue Origin and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are teaming up to design an asteroid-defense spacecraft that will deploy a variety of deflection technologies.

Glasgow Clyde College is preparing to make history by broadcasting a lecture into outer space as part of a new course ...

Long before nanotechnology existed, Richard Feynman explained how atoms could store huge amounts of information in microscopic spaces.

To meet LSA’s natural science requirement, most students select two of these courses and exert the minimum effort needed to acquire an A — which could be a problem because most feel they’re learning ...

She had wooed Sir Isaac Newton, increased the pension paid to Astrologer Royal Edmond Halley, attended lectures at the Royal Society (founded in 1660 by Charles II to promote ‘Physico-Mathematicall ...

Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. And by us, of course, we mean all of humanity. “Research shows that several Earth system ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...