Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience of the Earth system.1 The framework quantifies safe boundary levels for ...

Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The last full reversal took place approximately 780,000 years ago - leaving some experts to predict another flip is imminent.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...