Under California's Sierra Nevada mountains, a slow yet powerful force will change the entirety of the Earth's crust there.

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished ...

The rates of erosion in mountains could give us better assessment of potential ... The inexorable connectedness in understanding our planet -- the Earth itself, the environment in which we live and ...

Mars' atmosphere moves differently from Earth's due to gravity waves. These waves affect air circulation at high altitudes.

They found that Earth's current ice-covered state is not typical for the planet's history and was ... and highly dispersed continents with big mountains, which allow for lots of global rainfall ...

Researchers calculated that creatures large and small rival the landscape reshaping power of half a million major floods each year.