Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, ...

Atmospheric dust plays an important role in the way Earth absorbs and reflects sunlight, impacting the global climate, cloud ...

Earth's core isn't exactly aligned with its mantle, which results in a cyclical wobble, new research finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

What did Earth look like 3.2 billion years ago? New evidence suggests the planet was covered by a vast ocean and had no continents at all. Continents appeared later, as plate tectonics thrust enormous ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with the Earth in September 2182, new research has discovered. The IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

The water that supports life on Earth may have been on the planet much earlier than scientists previously thought, new research suggests. While the environmental conditions in Earth's early years made ...

UMass Lowell's Department of Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) provides a comprehensive understanding of current environmental challenges and the need for sustainable solutions. It ...

‘It’s critical that we understand the behavior of our planet’ ‘It’s critical that we understand the behavior of our planet’ For the next 10 years, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications that increase the ...

A recent statistical study has revealed that exoplanets with a mass of between 1 and 100 times the mass of Earth have a surface gravity surprisingly similar to terrestrial gravity. Can Star Wars ...