Almost a decade after NASA’s InSight mission put the first working seismometer on the Martian surface, researchers are still combing through its records of faint ground vibrations to reveal secrets of ...

Dust storms like this one deliver mineral dust to the Greenland Ice Sheet—and the dark-colored algae that are contributing to its melting. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery In the ...

The aftermath of one of the landslides triggered by the 23 - 24 February 2026 rainfall event in Juiz da Fora, Brazil. Still from a video captured by Viory and posted to Youtube by Poder360. Heavy ...

Alfvén waves are fundamental to the dynamics of space plasmas. New space missions, sophisticated rocket campaigns, and advances in radar networks and computer modeling have grown our understanding of ...

Mud volcanoes may be less imposing and less familiar than their distant cousins, lava volcanoes, but they come with hazards of their own, and their presence can signal hidden geologic processes ...

Geothermal activity near Hveragerði, Iceland, has created a natural laboratory where researchers can study how ecosystems, including microbes and plans, respond to long-term warming. Credit: Sara ...

An airborne survey helicopter prepares to collect radiometric and magnetic data over Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in 2022. The blue-and-white box in the back of the cabin contains the ...

The EarthArXiv preprint archive, in operation for almost a year and a half, makes the latest Earth science research available to a wider community. Leonardo DiCaprio (right) and Earth scientist Piers ...

Climate change’s impacts on mangroves were incorporated into a new calculation of the social cost of carbon, a measure of the monetary damages climate change is causing. Credit: Kristin Hoel, Unsplash ...

The dynamics of interactions between aerosols and clouds are far from being completely understood and, therefore, it is a source of uncertainty in climate modeling. In Im et al. [2026], a call is ...

Although the vast majority of diamonds form in Earth’s lithospheric mantle at depths between 140 and 200 kilometers, about 1% of mined diamonds originate from much greater depths. As the only direct ...

Sediment cores collected by instruments such as this one on the back of R/V Neil Armstrong shed light on how the North Atlantic Ocean of the last ice age circulated. Credit: Alice Carter-Champion A ...