A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

We divide by 4 since the solar energy is spread over ... last de-glaciation). The Earth's climate system is made up of regions which respond differently to changes in the planetary energy balance.

(F) Earth's dynamic physical systems interact in complex ways with profound impact ... Environmental Challenges: Science and Solutions (4 units) Spring This course explores the impacts of human, ...

worlds in our solar system and beyond! Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion years ago in a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas rotating around the early sun, made up of ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Tiny grains from a distant asteroid are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...