Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

A perfectly preserved ancient tree fossil offered scientists an unprecedented view into a moment 42,000 years ago when the ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these blobs are both hotter and ...

That’s not even close to the size of the “planet-killer” asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs. That one was estimated to be about 6.2 ...

Deep-seated mantle structures known as LLSVPs have been found to be over a billion years old, affecting tectonic activity.

Brock Yordy, a co-founder of the Geothermal Drillers Association, says the industry needs more drillers for geothermal ...

One way to simplify things is by buying a classic bunch of tulips. This is the only flower mass-grown in the United States in ...