A continental mash-up some 750 to 550 million years ago was likely essential for complex life to emerge during the Cambrian ...
It can be hard to wrap your mind around just how little of Earth's water is actually drinkable, even though there's so much ...
Extreme geomagnetic storms could impact Earth twice as strongly as thought after researchers found a statistical bias may ...
Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.
Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past ...
NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...
New simulations suggest the moon may have formed almost instantly after a giant impact, not slowly from a debris disk.
Scientists have found two new minerals that could trap huge amounts of water deep inside Earth, near the boundary between the mantle and the core.
A new study raises the possibility that the Sun once swallowed a super-Earth planet and may still hold clues about what ...