Perched along California’s Highway 1, where the Santa Lucia Mountains make a dramatic plunge into the Pacific Ocean, exists a viewpoint so spectacular it feels like nature is showing off.

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...

Sentinel-6B, launched by NASA and ESA, delivers ultra-precise sea-level and climate data using advanced radar and atmospheric ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...

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

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Ahead of COP30, more than 160 scientists released a report warning global warming is pushing humanity into a “danger zone” ...

About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

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 ...

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