In commemoration of Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22, we asked JPL Earth scientists to reflect on the event and what it means to them.
Earth scientist Charles Kennel has arisen as a new candidate to replace NASA Chief Mike Griffin.
Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China “are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ...
Diamonds from Brazil have provided the answers to a question that Earth scientists have been trying to understand for many years: how is oceanic crust that has been subducted deep into the Earth ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thanks to a big stroke of luck 200 million years ago, dinosaurs beat out a fearsome group of creatures competing for the right to rule the Earth, scientists said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thanks to a big stroke of luck 200 million years ago, dinosaurs beat out a fearsome group of creatures competing for the right to rule the Earth, scientists said on Thursday.
A study suggests that portions of a patch of bedrock in northern Quebec are 4.28 billion years old and formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old.
... human impact factor, Doran and Kendall Zimmerman sought the opinion of the most complete list of earth scientists they could find, contacting more than 10,200 experts around the world listed in the ...
A major mystery about the origins of life may have been resolved. Scientists have proposed a new theory for how a universal molecular machine, the ribosome, managed to self-assemble as a critical step ...
Earth is a giant fluid factory, according to new research. Earth scientists propose a new model for the nature and distribution of fluids from the core to Earth’s based on modern concepts of plate ...
Earth scientists are reaping huge benefits from research performed on NASA's advanced supercomputers. New cube-based simulations are helping to improve estimates of ocean circulation and climate.
... unlock mysteries of the sun and its impacts on Earth, scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive computer ... 3,700 miles in depth--an expanse as long as eight times Earth's diameter, and as deep ...
After decades of debate and four years of investigation an international body of earth scientists has formally agreed to move the boundary dates for the prehistoric Quaternary age by 800,000 years, ...
... carbon dioxide levels as high as they are today, Earth scientists report. "The last time carbon ... are today," said Aradhna Tripati, UCLA assistant professor of Earth and Space Sciences and lead author.
... in the laboratory, until now, has been shown to respond to magnetic fields as weak as the Earth’s.
Scientists from Arizona State University and the University of Oxford, whose work appears in the ...
