Trovants are rocks that grow by absorbing minerals from rainwater. Romania is home to a cluster of trovants that inspired ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

On Tuesday, Provost Francis Doyle announced that Greg Hirth ScM’87 PhD’91, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary ...

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

The ranges and valleys of the Swiss Alps stand out in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in December ...

As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

A recent study revealed that 2020 was the greenest year recorded by modern satellite observations from 2001 to 2020. This surge in greenery was particularly evident in northern and temperate regions, ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...