A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

In early 1969, the hard-working geologist was confronted by a mountain of a different sort. There was no scaling this obstruction. Suffering a debilitating stroke, Dr. Grace Anne Stewart died in a ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock about three football fields in length, will make a close approach to Earth around May ...

The University of New Mexico is calling all people interested in environmental science. The Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

"we need ages," Di Chiara told Live Science. "We need a way to date these sediments." That's where the variations in Earth's magnetic field come in. When rocks form, they lock in a record of the ...

Forecasters of space weather keep an eye on the sun to stay ahead of eruptions of solar material that have the ability to ...

Scientists have warned that humanity is not prepared for extreme space weather, as a solar storm is predicted to smash into ...

Incredible video from the European Space Agency reveals just how close Earth was to a direct hit from the 'bird wing' solar eruption.