Earth Science

Earth Science
Scientists reveal Mercury has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth

Scientists reveal Mercury has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth

On Earth, the storms produce aurora displays when solar wind particles interact with the particles of the atmosphere

Earth’s northern hemisphere

Microbes, minerals might have triggered Earth’s oxygenation: Study

Somewhere around 2.3 billion years ago, this stable, low-oxygen equilibrium shifted, and oxygen began building up in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today

Earth’s northern hemisphere

Meteorites that helped form earth may have formed in outer solar system: Study

Earth is believed to have formed partly from carbonaceous meteorites, which are thought to come from outer main-belt asteroids

A full moon is seen over Mexico City, Mexico, 5 July 2020

'Slushy' magma ocean led to formation of the Moon's crust: Study

Now, scientists have shown how the freezing of a 'slushy' ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon's crust

The ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida. The photo was taken, on 23 September 2021

Ocean life helps produce clouds, but existing clouds keep new ones at bay

By reflecting sunlight back into space and controlling rainfall, clouds play significant roles in the global climate and accurately predicting them is essential to understanding the effects of ...

In this file photo taken on 21 July, 2021, volunteers and researchers work to excavate dinosaur bones and fossils from a hillside at the Grand Staircase in Utah

Biden restores protections to Utah land where dinosaurs once roamed

During the Late Cretaceous period -- 100 to 66 million ago years ago, just before the dinosaurs went extinct -- all kinds of dinosaurs and mammals inhabited the area

Elephants walk through a swamp, in the Amboseli National Park, Kenya. The photo was taken on 11 August, 2021

Birds, mammals evolve faster where land has risen most: Study

The study found that the effect of elevation increase is greater than that of historical climate change, and of present-day elevation and temperature, in driving the formation of new species -- 'or ...

A cave lion cub named Sparta, which was found preserved in Siberia's permafrost, is seen in this undated photo taken in 2020, in Yakutsk, Russia

Cave lion cub found in Siberian permafrost is 28,000 years old

Scientists have said that an astonishingly well-preserved cave lion cub found in Siberia's permafrost lived 28,000 years ago and may even still have traces of its mother's milk in it

Field locations in the Northwest Territories of Canada where fossils that may represent the earliest known animal life sponges that lived roughly 890 million years ago were found

Sponge structures may be Earth's oldest animal life

Sponges are simple animals with an ancient history. Genetic evidence gathered from modern sponges has shown they likely emerged between 1 billion and 500 million years ago

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

China launches new meteorological satellite

Fengyun-3E (FY-3E), was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7.28am (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, Xinhua news agency reported

A general view of an exposed island of old microbialites at Salda Lake in Burdur province, Turkey on 1 March 2021. The official Twitter account of NASA Earth mentioned lake Salda in their tweet a day before NASA rover Perseverance touched down on Mars. Picture taken with a drone on 1 March 2021.

Mars on Earth: Turkish lake may hold clues to ancient life on planet

As NASA's rover Perseverance explores the surface of Mars, scientists hunting for signs of ancient life on the distant planet are using data gathered on a mission much closer to home at a lake in ...

Researchers work next to Chang'e-5 lunar return capsule carrying moon samples, after it landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on 17 December 2020

Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth with Moon rocks

The mission was the first in four decades to collect lunar samples, emulating the feats of the United States and the Soviet Union from the 1960s and 1970s -- and going a few steps further

New missile gap leaves US scrambling to counter China

New missile gap leaves US scrambling to counter China

China’s powerful military is considered to be a master at concealing its intentions. But there is no secret about how it plans to destroy American aircraft carriers if rivalry becomes war.At ...

NASA spacecraft nears Red Planet

NASA spacecraft nears Red Planet

NASA's first robotic lander designed to study the deep interior of a distant world hurtled closer to Mars on course for a planned touchdown on Monday after a six-month voyage through space.Traveling ...

NASA spacecraft days away from risky Mars landing

NASA spacecraft days away from risky Mars landing

Mars is about to get its first US visitor in years: a three-legged, one-armed geologist to dig deep and listen for quakes.NASA's InSight makes its grand entrance through the rose-tinted Martian skies ...

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