Josh Clark and Judy Long get to the bottom of how a state historically limited in resources can have such scholarship and ...

Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Believe it or not, there is currently an international space safety emergency protocol in effect across the entire planet.

Scientists discover strange glassy beads in southern Australia, revealing a previously unknown asteroid impact around 11 million years ago.

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.