Earth

Set your alarm on Wednesday to see some of the summer’s stunning meteor showers.

Think: subzero temperatures, bone-rattling storms and mysteries about the future of our planet under the ice.

The park’s newest hydrothermal feature has an otherworldly milky texture from dissolved silica

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Cascadia megathrust fault

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment investigation

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction shows that scientific conclusions aren’t decided by majority rule in the public square

A new study is fueling speculation and fear about the risks of a major earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone, including massive flooding in California

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

More and more climate scientists are supporting experiments to cool Earth by altering the stratosphere or the ocean

Scientists propose that large chunks of gold could form from earthquakes’ pressure

We take you down below Iceland's erupting surface with the researchers who are trying to understand what's going to happen next.