A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

An astonishingly high-resolution satellite that launched today will soon map changes on Earth’s surface in unprecedented detail — tracking everything from sinking croplands to crumbling ice sheets and ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Microscopic life thrives kilometers beneath Earth's surface, surviving on chemical reactions in rock and water. These ...