A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

On a clear night, the moon you gaze upon looks the same as it looked for the first humans that walked Earth—the same ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Water made California. The statement is often made about what is arguably the largest and most complex water transfer systems ...

At San Onofre — just yards from the shore break, on a bluff over the blue Pacific, in an active earthquake zone and close to ...

A team of 60 international scientists report that by early 2028 society will have emitted enough greenhouse gases that the ...

I n late 2026, a human-made object will reach a full light-day away from the Earth for the first time in human history.

On Earth, gold is estimated to be more than four billion years old, with around 216,265 tonnes of gold mined throughout its ...

China’s curbs on exports of some rare earth materials and magnets - used in automobiles, cell phones and myriad other devices ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a ...

On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too ...