Earth and Atmospheric Sciences News

Scientists from Boston University's Center for Space Physics (CSP) have obtained sub-visual evidence of the onset of a new cycle of solar-terrestrial activity

Within a dangerous stomach bacterium, Yale University researchers have discovered an ancient but functioning genetic remnant from a time before DNA existed

A new analysis of the unusually long solar cycle that ended in 2008 suggests that one reason for the long cycle could be a stretching of the Sun's conveyor belt

Space scientists at the University of Leicester have released satellite images of vast plumes of smoke emanating from the peat bog fires which are currently sweeping across central and western Russia

Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth's violent past

Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant supercontinent that constituted the Earth's landmass before it broke up into the separate continents we see today

What if trains, planes, and automobiles all were powered simply by the air through which they move? Moreover, what if their exhaust and byproducts helped the environment?

A unique blob-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 425 million years ago is revealed in a 3D computer model

The Sun's surface erupted early Sunday morning, blasting a wall of ionized atoms into interplanetary space on a collision course toward the Earth

Though still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results -- including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study