Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

IN an era when the boundaries of the earth had not yet been determined, one could change the direction of the world simply by being curious and passionate.

A Mars-size object called Theia smashed into Earth, and the debris coalesced into the moon. Now scientists believe they may have identified pieces of Theia at the bottom of Earth’s mantle. A new study ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Scientists reveal one side of Earth’s interior cools faster. The Pacific Ocean hemisphere loses heat quicker, influencing ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.