Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Scientists have discovered massive structures deep inside Earth, beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. These structures are ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

Zealandia, which some researchers believe could be considered Earth's eighth continent, is older than previously thought.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

The world endured three of its top-20 costliest disasters on record in 2024, its fifth-deadliest wildfire, and a record three ...

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at ...

"The work of the Lithoprobe research community has shown that the processes that continue to shape the continent today have been active through more than three billion years of Earth’s history." The ...