For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

Earth is far outside the safe operating zone for humanity and rapidly approaching a state of “red alert”, according to a new report on planetary health. Scientists have drawn on a wide array of ...

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...

The term 'Digital Twin of the Earth' creates the idea of the availability of a highly accurate virtual copy of our planet, enabling researchers to predict the most complex future climate developments ...

Humans are gambling on the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached. A team of ...

China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched ...

Research indicates airport radar systems may unintentionally broadcast Earth's presence to aliens up to 200 lightyears away, ...

Earth is a complex system, with myriad interactions and feedbacks among the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere, as well as the people, institutions, and technologies that ...

This issue paper will elevate and synthesize insights for governance and coordination systems to advance an effective and resilient globally integrated Earth observations system. This paper will build ...