Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

From 9-foot tall ostriches to albatrosses with gargantuan wingspans, here are some of the biggest birds in the world.

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

If you’ve been following the ongoing episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island, you might have seen the ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...