Flat Earth theory can be tested without relying on space photographs or one institution. Several independent observations ...

Why Does It Get Hotter the Deeper You Go? Miners have known this for ages, literally since ancient times: the further you dig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long linked these climate changes to fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, new research reveals the ...

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes across our planet’s land and icy regions. By Kenneth Chang A new radar satellite ...

A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...

Earth’s center of mass is constantly on the move, shifting by a few millimeters as enormous amounts of water, ice, and even air migrate around the planet with the seasons. NASA scientists have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Gold is a surprisingly common metal (it is more common than lead ...

Researchers have discovered a new gold-sulfur complex that sheds light on how gold deposits are formed. Gold in ore deposits associated with volcanoes around the Pacific Ring of Fire originates in ...

The phrase "water is life" is true – water makes all known life on Earth possible. It's also a key component in lubricating the super-slow movement of Earth's mantle layer, hydrating those rock layers ...

Hyperspectral remote sensing has transformed Earth observation by enabling material- and object-level identification based on diagnostic spectral ...