Geophysics is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists, who usually study geophysics, physics, or one of the Earth sciences at the graduate level, complete investigations across a wide range of scientific disciplines. The term geophysics classically refers to solid earth applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational, magnetic fields, and electromagnetic fields ; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations and pure scientists use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial physics; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.

भूभौतिकी (Geophysics) पृथ्वी की भौतिकी है। इसके अंतर्गत पृथ्वी संबंधी सारी समस्याओं की छानबीन होती है। साथ ही यह एक प्रयुक्त विज्ञान भी है, क्योंकि इसमें भूमि समस्याओं और प्राकृतिक रूपों में उपलब्ध पदार्थों के व्यवहार की व्याख्या मूल विज्ञानों की सहायता से की जाती है। इसका विकास भौतिकी और भौमिकी से हुआ है। भूविज्ञानियों की आवश्यकता के फलस्वरूप नए साधनों के रूप में इसका जन्म हुआ।