An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Hundreds of people have been sharing how they feel about a project that could see Canada’s nuclear waste buried deep ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Oxygen is a vital and constant presence on Earth today. But that hasn't always been the case. It wasn't until around 2.3 ...

Data from the USGS shows the seismic events have ranged in strength from 2.5 up to 4.2 in magnitude.

Southern California's beaches have grown more than 500 acres over the past four decades despite being one of the most heavily ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

The discovery offers new insight into how fossils are preserved and how Earth naturally stores carbon over long periods of ...

For much of the last 485 million years, the global climate fluctuated wildly between extremely hot and extremely cold weather, findings that researchers said have major implications for today’s ...

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

Island’s mineral and resource wealth is result of mountain building, rifting and volcanic activity over 4bn years ...