Lunar-based measurements reveal Earth’s outgoing radiation is dominated by low-order spherical harmonics, providing unified global data for climate and environmental studies ...

According to a recent study, events geologists use to distinguish transitions between geological chapters in Earth's story follow a hidden hierarchical pattern, one that could shed light on both past ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as ...

A team led by Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research has identified four time windows in the last 160 million years where Earth’s record of magnetic pole reversals appears to be missing entries.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...