Hydrogen reserves in Earth’s core large enough to supply at least nine oceans may influence processes on the surface today.

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Do animals play a larger role in shaping the Earth’s surface than geological processes like flooding, wind, fire, and landslides? This is what a recent study published in Proceedings of the National ...

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 ...

Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, BNU has the following research output in the current window (1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025) of the Nature Index. Click on ...

Scientists have spent decades cataloging life on Earth’s surface, from rainforest canopies to ocean trenches. But a growing body of research now shows that a vast, hidden biosphere thrives kilometers ...

We have compared the four temporal modes of the gravity field with the six temporal modes of the magnetic field one by one. The main principal components of the core magnetic and gravity signals ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earth’s inner core, a solid metal ball gyrating within the molten outer core, may be both slowing down and changing shape. Recent analyses of earthquake waves have suggested that ...

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The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) team was one of two teams selected out of four finalists for NASA’s Earth System ...