A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

Extreme heat forged Earth’s continents billions of years ago, creating the stable foundation that made life possible.

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A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

From spy thrillers and cathedrals to champagne and politics, Follett has been rebuilding history with his ambition and ...

“The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the face of the earth.” — Abraham Lincoln (16th US President in his globally acclaimed less than two minutes ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

A new study may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 550-million-year-old rocks.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...