Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

The Zond 1 probe was the second Soviet spacecraft to reach Venus, and the first lander to have been sent there. However, ...

Ice cores from Antarctica reveal "snapshots" from 6 million years of Earth's climatic history. Antarctica is far more than just a bucket-list destination for travelers and a home for penguins. It's a ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Long before life thrived in Earth’s oceans, the planet’s magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks of Morocco, scientists have recovered one of the clearest records of that ...

A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher from The University of Texas at El Paso may expand the known range of a species ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...