Even as temperatures rise on Earth's surface and in the lower atmosphere, the planet's upper atmosphere has cooled dramatically. This paradoxical pattern is a well-known sign of humanity's climate ...

Wild animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world. Many also act as natural landscape engineers, reshaping Earth's surface as they burrow, feed, and build shelters that move soil and sediment ...

A cluster of at least three asteroids between 20 and 50 kilometres across colliding with Earth over 3.2 billion years ago caused a massive change in the structure and composition of the earth’s ...

Historic first look: Using JWST’s infrared instruments, scientists directly analyzed the surface of super-Earth LHS 3844 b, marking a milestone in exoplanet geology. Bleak surface revealed: The planet ...

Historic first view: Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument captured thermal emissions from exoplanet Kua’kua, enabling the first direct surface study of a rocky world beyond our solar system. Harsh planetary ...

Geomorphology – the study of landforms and the processes that shape the Earth’s surface – integrates observations of tectonic, fluvial, glacial, aeolian, and coastal dynamics to explain landscape ...

New research suggests that many planets previously considered promising for life may, in fact, be far less hospitable. A distant planet might sit in the perfect orbit for life, with temperatures just ...