Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed ... worlds in our solar system and beyond! Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...

The cryosphere, the part of the earth system that is ice, covers a small proportion of the Earth's surface but plays a large role in the climate system. Sea ice has an albedo about ten times that ...