Americans set few everyday expectations for science, but they are fundamental: We expect the weather forecast to be right, we ...

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...

The solar system past Neptune is filled with an uncounted number of small, unusual worlds, from barely visible specks of ice to sugar-coated snowmen to Pluto and its five known satellites. These trans ...

New research adds to the evidence that when inhaled, wildfire smoke pollutants may be more harmful to human health than other forms of pollutants. This smoke plume was generated by the 2016 Rey Fire ...

Central North America witnesses more tornadoes than anywhere else on Earth. Each year, 10 times as many twisters barrel through the United States compared with Canada, which is second on the list.

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global temperatures of 2023. Global surface temperature anomalies since 1950, in ...

The flow of the Earth’s mantle creates tectonic stresses beneath the lithosphere, the Earth’s rigid outer shell. The stress inside the lithosphere causes its shattering, forming fault-and-fracture ...

What does a geoscientist do? Yes, Earth and space scientists work at lab benches, but they also design experimental plots, explore exoplanets and ocean depths, and use supercomputers and Secchi disks.

On every continent, unassuming rocks covered in a thin, slimy layer of microbes pull carbon from the air and deposit it as solid calcium carbonate rock. These are microbialites, rocks formed by ...

The 2020 Bobcat Fire is seen burning in Los Angeles County, California. A new analysis shows that the onset of the state’s wildfire season has been shifting earlier due to climate change. Credit: ...

A collection of Commentaries published in the journals of the American Geophysical Union illuminate the deep and growing benefits of research in the Earth and space sciences for humanity. This image ...

Combining direct measurements with artificial intelligence methods, a new map estimates groundwater depth across the contiguous United States at a resolution of ...