After analyzing 540 million years of fossils, researchers have pinpointed places where unknown prehistoric species could ...

To aim for passing the High School Equivalency Exam in Basic Earth Science, it is effective to broadly confirm the important ...

For over a century astronomers have speculated that comets could have delivered organic molecules necessary for life to Earth ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

The study links groundwater depletion to roughly 78. 5 centimeters of eastward rotational-pole drift between 1993 and 2010.

An international team of scientists has discovered the oldest material ever found on the ocean floor: rocks dating back some 2.8 billion years. The rocks, dredged up from the bottom of the Indian ...

Scientists may have solved why the length of Earth’s day changes by a few milliseconds over decades. Subtle shifts in the inner core appear to tug on the mantle, revealing a surprisingly dynamic world ...

Chemical clues and computer simulations suggest the two rocky planets have unique origin stories. By Robin George Andrews Making planets is an extreme enterprise. Although it starts with dust and gas ...

(matejmo/iStock/Getty Images) We're here. We're not entirely sure how we got here, but we're here. But… what if we weren't ...

The inner core of the Earth may have paused its rotation and even have begun spinning in reverse over the past decade, according to a new study by two Peking University scientists. The geophysicists ...