I have not been to Point Nemo, though it has maintained a curious hold on me for decades. Not long ago, I set out to find the ...

A look at the evidence for the Earth being round or spherical. Aristotle’s reasoning is explained. The evidence includes a ship’s hull disappearing first over the horizon, the stars ...

This theory comes from the work of Ian Pamerleau, a PhD student, and Mike Sori, assistant professor in Purdue’s Department of ...

Oct. 27, 2024 — The warming climate in polar regions may significantly disrupt ocean circulation patterns, a new study indicates. Scientists discovered that in the distant past, growing inflows ...

Oct. 21, 2024 — Scientists paint a compelling picture of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed into Earth 3.26 billion years ... Oct. 29, 2024 — A web-based application that gathers ...

from the atmosphere grid to subgrid topographic units established in their earlier studies for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) Land Model (ELM). The work is published in the Journal ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians.

In case you haven’t heard the big news yet, Earth now has a second moon. But it will be around for only a short period of time. Earth obtained a new mini-moon, which is actually a near-Earth asteroid, ...

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

The environments in space habitats and on the Earth are both closed-loop systems, only on vastly different scales. Imagine living in a place where your survival depends upon living within your ...

And it is very small, at just 10 metres across. But it is one of a very few times that we have seen the Earth acquire a new temporary satellite of this kind. Doing so is both a testament to how ...