A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Every few hundred thousand years, Earth’s magnetic poles flip, turning north into south and south into north. These geomagnetic reversals can take thousands of years, but shorter disruptions—called ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Volatile organic compounds (VOC), usually associated with poor indoor air, were discovered in Finland in a borehole more than two kilometres deep. Previously, groundwater dating back tens of millions ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched a new round of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Monday evening from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Science News // 2 days ago ESA's ...

I’m excited to have the outdoors as my office. I really love being outside. Earth System Science Ph.D. student Ericka Boudreau is on her way to becoming a triple River Hawk. I enrolled in the Ph.D.

What hidden realms lie beneath our feet? In this week's science news, geologists uncovered a series of "sunken worlds" hidden deep within Earth's mantle that they say shouldn't be there.

As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the Moon, there should also be a measurable difference between the oxygen isotopes -- depending on the origin of the material that ...