Earths

Lacking bones, brains, and even a complete gut, the body plans of simple animals like sea anemones appear to have little in common with humans and their vertebrate kin. Nevertheless, new…

By pumping water out of the ground and moving it elsewhere, humans have shifted such a large mass of water that the Earth tilted nearly 80 centimeters (31.5 inches) east between 1993 and…

Computer models confirm that the African Superplume is responsible for the unusual deformations as well as rift-parallel seismic anisotropy observed beneath the East African Rift System. In…

The end of The Flash: Season 9 marks a bittersweet moment for DC fans. The Arrowverse has officially come to a close, 11 years after Arrow kicked off this massive superhero…

Visually striking layers of burnt orange, yellow, silver, brown and blue-tinged black are characteristic of banded iron formations, sedimentary rocks that may have prompted some of the…

Planetary scientists now know how thick the Martian crust is, thanks to the strongest Marsquake ever observed. On average, the crust is between 42 and 56 kilometers thick,…

On Jupiter, lightning jerks and jolts a lot like it does on Earth. Jovian lightning emits radio wave pulses that are typically separated by about one millisecond, researchers…

Approximately 700,000 years ago, a "warm ice age" permanently changed the climate cycles on Earth. Contemporaneous with this exceptionally warm and moist period, the polar glaciers greatly…

The Tibetan Plateau, known as the "third pole," or "roof of the world," is one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth. While positive natural selection at several genomic loci…

THE WOODLANDS, TEXAS — Vestiges of a moon-forming cataclysm could have kick-started plate tectonics on Earth. The leading explanation for the origin of the moon proposes that a…