It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the ...

Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon called true polar wander In an ideal model of our planet, the axis around ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

While the comet is not scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth until Friday, December 19th, the Martian flotilla has ...

A new series of experiments has shown that the mysterious "E-prime layer," which surrounds Earth's outer core, is created by water that leaks deep into our planet's interior. When you purchase through ...

Cornell’s CU GeoData project team brings together engineering and earth science students to design and deploy low-cost ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Several billion years ago, tiny little creatures called cyanobacteria may have changed the colour of the ocean.

Astronomers have long wondered how Earth became water-rich—bountiful with abyssal oceans, frigid glaciers and rain that pours from the sky into lakes, rivers and wetlands. Water, which is composed of ...

Earth may have had fresh, not just salty, water as soon as 600 million years after the planet formed — a mere blink of an eye in geologic time. Researchers analyzed oxygen molecules within ...