geoscience

Astronauts and Jeff Bezos-types hoping to set up shop on the Moon might have another challenge to worry about:…

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

Scientists hope to employ networks of “dark fibers,” unused fiber optic cables, in order to sense sound waves moving…

We already knew this, but let me repeat it for those in the back: The academic world of Earth science is white AF.

Last night, planet Earth rumbled in a place where it usually doesn’t rumble: Montana. But it also rumbled in the…

300,000 square miles is nearly twice the area of California. It’s difficult to visualize a space that vast, but go…

Researchers from Rice University say that around 4.4 billion years ago, a Mercury-like planet smashed into Earth,…

Every geoscientist in North America has a favourite story of helicopters, bears, or both, but these epic field…

Judging from this photograph, Camp No.1 on the Ochlockonee River in Florida is the best-dressed field camp I've ever…

Back in 1904, placer miners combed the Shoshone River for any trace of precious metals. With gold and silver found…

Our dynamic planet has an apparent paradox: the more ice melts from landlocked glaciers, the lower the sea level…

Forest fires are a danger in many places in the world. But, even when comparing similar forests, North America's…

Here's something you don't see every day: An ultra-HD time-lapse of Earth, as seen in infrared.

The Earth's climate has always changed. All species eventually become extinct. But a new study has brought into…

Japanese chef Takayo "Tama-cha" Kiyota uses carefully arranged food to create cross-sectional sushi-roll art. Her…

You've probably heard of absolute zero, but what do you call the opposite end of the temperature spectrum?

Mars is covered in craters. Most of them are very old. The one you see here is, at most, two years and four months…

Every December, geoscientists descend on San Francisco for the American Geophysical Union annual meeting. It's the…

Via Natural Resources Canada comes a gorgeously detailed geological map of the Arctic, served up hot and fresh for…

A recent study published by the American Geophysical Union concludes California's ongoing megadrought is the…