A 53-foot asteroid will pass Earth on March 27, followed by two more flybys a day later. NASA confirms all are safe, but why ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Wednesday evening was the grand opening for a new exhibit at the History Museum at the Castle featuring a collection that earth science buffs in the area will likely recognize.

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to ...

The exhibit is titled “Prehistoric Wisconsin” and features ancient items, many from the Weis Earth Science Collection. The ...

AAAS recognized Mitchell for “distinguished contributions to the field of transdisciplinary community-engaged scholarship as ...

DNA from a distance ...

It only takes one close encounter with a lightning strike to get the full sense of its power. At around 1 gigaJoule of energy, a single electrical discharge during a thunderstorm is more than enough ...

Scientists are using molecular clocks and genomic data to trace the origins of LUCA and LECA—life’s earliest common ancestors ...

Cycles in the growth and decay of Antarctica's ice sheets once shaped marine biological productivity thousands of miles away ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive water reservoir deep beneath Earth’s surface, contained within a mineral called ...

The melting of ice sheets causing increased sea levels pushed Earth’s days a little longer. Modern climate change is only ...