and some types of earth science occupations may demand graduate education. A master's or doctorate is usually necessary for a research career, Hauck explains. Doug Gouzie, a professor of geology ...

Prior to the new research, scientists had traced the source of just 6 percent of the known meteorites that fell on our planet ...

These meteorites would have been the fractured remains of early "unmelted asteroids," a type of planetesimal ... from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge in England, said ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

Earth's auroras result from solar winds interacting with the magnetosphere, creating light displays in vivid colors based on ...

Predicting what Earth will look like in 1000 years could help researchers find signs of life on other planets.

Recently published research looks at the possibility that rainwater played a crucial role in stabilizing early cells, paving ...

With the initial images from each of the instruments aboard ESA's EarthCARE satellite now in hand, it's time to reveal how ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named ...

Shelf-stable milk is a miracle of food science that Americans just won’t drink.

Researchers created a seismic map of Earth's interior beneath the southeastern Pacific Ocean and discovered an ancient slab ...