Up until now, exoplanet surveys have mostly focused on nearby, bright stars that are sun-like or are red dwarfs, which are known to frequently host planets. While astronomers have discovered thousands ...

Alex Farnsworth receives funding from UKRI, ERC and Leverhulme. Dan Lunt currently receives research funding from UKRI, the EU, and NWS. Dann Mitchell and John Cook do not work for, consult, own ...

Surface water is fundamental to the Earth system, and it is undergoing rapid transformation driven by climate variability, extreme events, land use change, ...

Faculty members in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Central Michigan University have secured new funding ...

A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

A leading climate scientist has sought to set the record straight over "demonstrably incorrect" claims made in a major U.S.

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us. And by us, of course, we mean all of humanity. “Research shows that several Earth system ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) is one of two missions NASA selected Feb. 5 for its Earth System Explorer program. Credit: Lanteris Space Systems WASHINGTON — NASA has selected two Earth ...