Henry C. Wu, Scientific Officer, GERICS, discusses the role of evidence and science-based solutions for global climate ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

Earth's vital limits are shattering. Humanity has now crossed seven of nine planetary boundaries, thrusting societies into ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

Remembered as a pioneering atmospheric scientist who bridged planetary science, climate policy, and undergraduate education, ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

This study will describe how international and national planetary protection policy has been formulated and adopted and identify associated lessons to inform future policy development. The National ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These 11-million-year-old glass fragments differ chemically and geographically ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.