Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...

Scientists have said that in a cosmos filled with trillions of stars, intelligent alien life will form ‘in only a matter of ...

Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs ...

For most of its history, Earth has existed in a greenhouse state—warm, ice-free, and rich in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The ...

Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...

Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...

A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...