It appears that humanity has messed with plate tectonics just to improve cotton yields,” said one earth scientist.

I have seen at least a dozen total lunar eclipses. As I watched the curved shadow of Earth again creep over the moon during March’s eclipse, I realized, along with every thinking person since ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The White House announced an executive order that could lead to some federally protected lands in Washington State to be ...

In the 2030s, a groundbreaking mission led by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will bring samples of Martian rock and ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.