Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a permanent faculty ...

The surface of the Earth’s inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study from USC scientists that detected structural ...

Africa is often synonymous with its drylands that cover two-thirds of the continent. Relief is brought through rainfall ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

New research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has considered how the Mont-Blanc massif in France has responded to changing environmental conditions since the termination of the ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing collision ...

Researchers have identified a possible link between climate change and the frequency of earthquakes — and the quakes may also start a vicious circle of accelerating climate change.