The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue has many wonderful things to offer to its students. The faculty-to-student ratio is very high, and all undergraduates are ...

Water, mineral, and energy resources are essential to what we do in our everyday lives. Their formation and distribution around the globe are due to fascinating geologic processes. Our dependence on ...

Editor’s note: The following is the introduction to a special e-publication called Determining the Age of the Earth (click the link to see a table of contents). Published earlier this year, the ...

IT is, perhaps, one of the consequences of the antiquity of astronomy that it is not now usually presented to the youthful mind in a thoroughly scientific manner. The established truths of the science ...

When you hear the term "Earth art," your mind probably goes one of two ways: art depicting the Earth, or earth being used to make art. If you thought of the latter, you're spot on. Intro to Earth Arts ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's difficult to imagine now, but at certain points in Earth's history, ice covered the entire ...