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

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

Embark Studios' extraction shooter takes cues from sci-fi classics to establish a dark future, but its cautionary tale is ...

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

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

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

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

Humans live in a world abundant in salt, but this everyday seasoning is a luxury for wild herbivores, and it's far from clear ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

A new study shows coral reefs have regulated Earth's climate and marine evolution for over 250 million years. Reef growth and ...

NASA has lost contact with its Mars-orbiting spacecraft, Maven, which had been functioning normally before disappearing behind the planet.

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys ...