At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

New research challenges the idea that the hemispheres' matching brightness is a fundamental property of the planet ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

A n enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how a subducting oceanic plate actively breaks apart into fragments, forming ...

The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

A new study may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 550-million-year-old rocks.