The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

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

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

The Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum is the largest museum of its kind in the Middle East. For the first time in the world, ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle, a colossal stone structure has been unearthed, challenging everything we thought we knew ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

D heat maps show how deep temperature patterns under Greenland help explain uneven ice loss and land motion, improving future ...

NASA has lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars for more than a decade. Here's what we know.

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