Earth Science

For decades, planetary scientists have treated meteorites as fragments of worlds that no longer exist—or that remain hidden inside larger...

A new study reports a potentially transformative approach to one of the most stubborn challenges in environmental cleanup: removing toxic...

The Cambrian Explosion is often described as nature’s most dramatic evolutionary acceleration: in a geologically brief interval, nearly all major...

Clean water technology may be entering a new era in which molecular architecture, rather than simply chemical composition, determines how...

At the bottom of the world’s oceans, where the seafloor is pulled apart at one of the slowest rates on...

A 360-million-year-old fossil plant from China has revealed the earliest known example of seed-bearing leaves crowded with ovules, providing an...

In the High Arctic, winter is often portrayed as a season when the ocean’s biological machinery shuts down beneath darkness,...

Earth’s deepest boundary may be hiding a chemical fingerprint left over from the planet’s earliest history. A new study by...

A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment points to a powerful connection between the tropical Pacific and the...

A new study is bringing genomic tools into one of Earth’s most inaccessible habitats: the deep biosphere, where microorganisms live...