Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and sy
The rocky side of a mountain creek in Costa Rica.
Layers of sedimentary rock in Makhtesh Ramon.
A volcanic eruption is the release of stored energy from below Earth's surface.
The magnetosphere shields the surface of Earth from the charged particles of the solar wind. (image not to scale.)
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is made possible by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid su
Earth science
…Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four spheres…
Earth as seen from Meteosat-12 in 2025, during the March equinox
A depiction of the early Solar System's protoplanetary disk from which Earth and other Solar System bodies were formed
Pale orange dot, an impression of Early Earth, featuring its tinted orange methane-rich early atmosphere
A conception of the scorched Earth after the Sun has entered the red giant phase, about 5–7 billion years in the future