If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

Insulation provided by carbon dioxide ice above the martian polar caps could explain many of the Red Planet’s ancient river features.

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.