A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The Sentinel-6B satellite arrives in California for launch, ready to measure sea level with unprecedented climate accuracy.

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

A billion-dollar international mission to extend humanity’s most precise ocean measurements is about to ride a column of fire ...

A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

King tides are returning to the Oregon Coast on Nov. 5, officially kicking off the 2025-26 king tide season.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...