Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

Scientists from the University of Colombia have found an ancient "ghost" DNA genome that existed in South America over 6,000 years ago but vanished.

During these episodes, known as Snowball Earth, ice sheets spread from the poles toward the equator, turning much of the ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following ...

A new study focuses on krypton gas in the hopes of understanding how ancient coastlines and landscapes change in Earth’s past ...

For modern residents of the Levant, the "Red Sea Trough" usually brings a brief, dusty transition between seasons. But ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

A windy day at Allan Hills in December 2022. (Peter Neff/COLDEX) The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly ...

Debunking alien claims matters, but so does telling richer, more compelling stories about how humans shaped their own past.

Ancient rocks in Sweden are acting like a “rock clock,” helping scientists finally pin down when major Cambrian climate changes happened.