What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

The ACCESS Earth System Model (ACCESS-ESM) is a fully-coupled global climate model that includes atmoshpere, land, ocean, sea ice, ocean biogeochemistry and land biogeochemistry components, linked ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

Western Connecticut State University's Science Building is celebrating its 20th year in April 2026. Photo courtesy of WCSU DANBURY – ...

For 19 Columbia graduate students this past July, it was their classroom. Earlier this year, the M.S. in Sustainability ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their environment, changing the abiotic factors in their habitat as well as the lives ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Jupiter acts like a cosmic shield for Earth because of its enormous size and strong gravity. Its powerful gravitational pull attracts or deflects many comets, asteroids, and space debris that could ...

Coupling an AI-driven model of the atmosphere with a model of the ocean could help scientists create highly efficient emulations of the entire Earth system. Modelers have demonstrated that artificial ...

For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...