earth science

We’ve had a week, haven’t we, friends?

A new map shows just how vulnerable some parts of the United States’ power grid might be to the impacts of a strong…

Mars’ surface, as far as we can tell, is not habitable to humans—it’s far too cold. But eventually, humanity would…

Every summer as the Arctic warms up, seasonal highways open on the ocean, allowing sea ice to migrate southward and…

Every several years, magnetic field observatories record quick changes to the position or strength of the planet’s…

Scientists have created perhaps the most detailed view of the rust formation process yet, according to a new paper…

Magnetic fields around the Earth release strong bursts of energy, accelerating particles and feeding the auroras…

Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve…

Researchers report that they’ve observed seismic waves traversing the Earth’s inner core, allowing them to figure…

It’s September 30th, 2018, and the theme of the last week was memory. Not just at Gizmodo, where we wrapped up…

On September 15, NASA will launch a laser 310 miles above the Earth to scan our planet’s ice sheets like never…

Our oceans are brimming with microscopic phytoplankton—plant-like organisms that contribute significantly to marine…

Parts of the Earth’s mantle might be loaded with diamonds, if a new model turns out to be correct. But no, you can’t…

It turns out that 8,000 tiny plastic disks in a rotating drum could help scientists develop a technique to forecast…

By combining satellite radar with seismic data, an international team of researchers has re-assessed the effects of…

New research connects a powerful volcanic eruption—and a medieval poem that conjured memories of the dreaded…

It wasn’t scientists who discovered the thin, purple, east-to-west traveling glow in the northern night sky. It was…

Diamonds, the super-strong and brilliant crystals of carbon atoms produced under the Earth’s crushing pressures, are…

Perhaps there’s a life-supporting, Earth-like planet orbiting close to a red dwarf star many light years away.…

Earlier this week, a storm spawned by the former Cyclone Gita swept across New Zealand, damaging buildings, knocking…