The grinding, colliding, shifting, and diving of plates causes earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, builds mountains, tears open oceans, and constantly remodels and resurfaces our home planet.
The grinding, colliding, shifting, and diving of plates causes earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, builds mountains, tears open oceans, and constantly remodels and resurfaces our home planet.
NASA’s Operation IceBridge 2017 Arctic campaign included flights out of the Norwegian archipelago.
A new study says tens of thousands of people die prematurely each year because diesel engines don’t really run as cleanly as they do in laboratory tests.
In 2012, Arctic sea ice extent was unusually low in September. New research suggests that may have contributed to a bad haze outbreak in China the next winter.
Scientists have made marked developments on the space-vegetable front this spring.
It wasn't the storm’s strength that was worth noting; it was its timing.
Twenty years ago this month, a hundred-year flood inundated cities along the Red River.
Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what we are looking at, when the image was acquired, and why the scene is interesting.
Two studies published in April 2017 suggest that an increase in global concentrations of methane may not be related to rising methane emissions.
Here’s a roundup of some of the latest Earth science news from NASA.