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 ...

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 ...

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Scientists previously had determined the total amount of ordinary matter using a calculation involving light observed that ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...