NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

New satellite maps reveal how oceans absorb carbon, offering real-time insight into climate shifts and ocean acidification.

This animated map shows how global populations are distributed across Earth by dividing the globe into slices covering 10% of ...

Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

Geophysics Survey Reveals Striking Similarities to World-Class Mountain Pass Rare Earth Deposit; Geochemical Anomalies ...

Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, and Venus.

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.

Google marks two decades of Google Earth, the revolutionary tool that has changed how we see and interact with our planet.