Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that ...

Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Ashesh Chattopadhyay will build AI models to project extreme Earth-system events.

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

In a white paper published by a multidisciplinary team of top scientists in China, Earth system is defined to encompass both internal and external geospheres from solid Earth system through surface ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is making progress on a multibillion-dollar series of Earth science missions amid uncertainty about their funding for the next year. In town hall sessions at the Fall Meeting of the ...

When people think about the most important ingredient for life on other planets, they usually talk about water. But there’s another element that makes our existence possible. “We’re carbon-based life ...