The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent more than a year trying to get in touch with the sile ...

During the Ediacaran period, approximately between 630 and 540 million years ago, Earth has remained a persistent and ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...

During the Boring Billion, shifting plate tectonics played a central role in transforming Earth's surface from toxic and ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

Seismic activity manifested as a swarm of earthquakes between July 29 and August 4, located to the west of the Farasan ...

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, ...

Earth's 'Boring Billion' created the conditions for complex life to exist, report scientists at the universities of Sydney ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...