Children explored science everywhere from the bottom of the sea to outer space thanks to a Deaf Science Day event at ...

Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen in human history. When most people hear the term Earth science, they think ...

The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans, where thousands of Earth, atmospheric, glacial, ...

A collection of down-to-Earth facts about our planet and its place in the solar system. This collection introduces the Sun as the main source of light and heat on Earth. It explains that the Earth ...

Explore investigations into the natural world with BBC Science. See cutting-edge research, studies, and investigative stories ...

Asatellite image of the Great Escarpment in southern Africa from the Sentinel Hub Earth Observation Browser (Prof Tom Gernon/University of Southampton/PA Wire) Scientists have solved one of Earth’s ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

Wednesday evening was the grand opening for a new exhibit at the History Museum at the Castle featuring a collection that ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

little or no oxygen a large amount of carbon dioxide water vapour small amounts of other gases, such as ammonia and methane Scientists cannot be sure about the early atmosphere since it formed so long ...

Chemical signatures in ancient ocean crust point to a planet without continents Scientists have found evidence that Earth was covered by a global ocean that turned the planet into a “water world” more ...