The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

A new geological model revolutionizes a century of theories: a rigid wedge of mantle keeps the Himalayas standing.

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is ...

The burgeoning space industry may be posing a significant threat to our planet’s protective ozone layer. Recent studies have ...

Scientists found six-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, unlocking the planet’s oldest samples and evidence of dramatic long-term cooling.

Scientists have reported that the Earth’s ozone layer is healing faster than expected and could be fully restored by 2066.

Drilling through ancient glaciers in the Allan Hills region of southeastern Antarctica, researchers from the Center for ...

In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are ...

If current trends hold, the ozone hole could shrink back to its size in the 1980s, according to the World Meteorological ...