Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

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

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

For millennia, humans evolved beneath open skies, surrounded by forests, rivers and the rhythms of the natural world. This ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Life on our planet may have started via a process fueled by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor billions of years ago, and ...

PERHAPS, given the recent angry outbursts from Mother Nature, thinking about annihilation following devastation was a logical ...

Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.