When Earth tips over to restore its rotational balance, sea levels shift around the globe—episodes scientists have now traced ...

The planet beneath our feet was alive—the continent of Earth scienceStarting with what Earth science is, we have traveled ...

When the rotation of Earth’s axis speeds up or slows down, which happens over decades, a day might end up being milliseconds ...

The shape of the ocean floor alone can sustain major ocean currents and climate patterns, even in a simulated Earth with ...

Suppose that you could create a K–12 science and engineering curriculum from scratch. How would you go about doing it? Over the past four years, that’s essentially what we have done: first by writing ...

Water-rock chemistry helped methane-producing microbes survive extreme alkaline conditions modeled on Enceladus’s hidden ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is celebrating National Earth Science week with fun, all-ages activities included ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history. Curiously though, a sizeable layer representing anywhere from 250 million years to ...

There are three things that I remember from my high-school Earth-science class: the swirling pink cover of the study book designed to help us pass New York State’s year-end test, the football player ...

ESA’s Juice spacecraft raced past Earth on September 28, using our planet’s gravity to dramatically reshape its path toward ...

The study of Earth science isn’t just for students who are interested in how our planet works. It’s also for those who are passionate about addressing urgent global challenges such as climate change, ...