A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

The more water from the polar regions flows into the world’s oceans— particularly into equatorial areas—the more significant the drag factor on the speed at which Earth rotates, says the paper.

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and ... didn't freeze over some 4.5 billion years ago, under the reign of then-young ...

Scientists until then had believed that the ... are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings. There are now more than 50 different Ediacaran forms known, from nearly ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

similar animals could have lived at the same time on what are now widely separated continents. You probably wouldn't recognize the Earth if you could see it 225 million years ago. Back then ...

Blue Origin and SpaceX have been feuding since way back in November 2015, when Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos stole Musk's ...

The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.