The breakup of Earth’s supercontinent split seas and lands apart, creating new ecosystems. These shifts opened the door to the Jurassic ...

Learning how pronghorn survived the climate changes that ended the ice ages anddrove so many other large mammals to ...

We each are shaped by the things around us, our parents, education and the journeys we take. And it is geology that perhaps has shaped me the most, growing up in a place with rocks the size of ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Researchers worked out the ocean's size by finding how high the water level got in the Solar System’s largest canyon system.

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

China has been turning heads with its impressive artificial islands, which have already become large enough to inhabit.

As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.

A planetary scientist who has participated in analog missions describes their value for planning space exploration – and ...