UCSB research offers a new perspective on how carbon is stored in the deep ocean and what it could mean for maintaining Earth ...

SQUIRE aims to detect exotic spin-dependent interactions using quantum sensors deployed in space, where speed and ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

Glaciers are flush with microbial life. But, as climate change speeds glacial melting, scientists rush to establish microbial ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

Earth and planetary sciences professor Andrew Fisher will lead hydrogeology simulations to study how water, heat, and ...

Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...

After placing an ancient extreme Earth organism outside of the ISS for nine months, scientists were shocked to find it was ...

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school, scientists are mapping strange, continent-sized structures that appear to shape everything from volcanic hotspots to the ...

ITER project has entered a critical phase: the reactor core is assembled, and each weld will try to recreate solar fusion on Earth.

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped ...

The May 2024 solar storm, which was the biggest in two decades, squeezed one of Earth's protective layers to one-fifth its size. This layer of charged particles — called the plasmasphere — dropped ...