In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets and frozen over several times ...

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

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Particles that escaped Earth’s atmosphere accumulated on the lunar surface over billions of years. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to processed food additives, revealing how modern diets can reshape microbial evolution worldwide.

Researchers find Apennine brown bears evolved into a smaller, less aggressive animal after centuries of coexistence with ...

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...