Students from the Philippine Science High School-Cordillera Administrative Region topped the app development competition for ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...

A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...