Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Starting a museum exhibit with shoes seems, initially, an odd choice – especially when those on display look quite similar to ...

After years of writing about international destinations and chasing exotic locales across the globe, I found myself ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Planet Labs (NYSE:PL) is up 30% in morning trading today, touching almost $17 per share after crushing third quarter earnings ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The daughter of María Corina Machado​ gave a speech in Oslo on Wednesday on behalf of her mother, who was awarded the 2025 ...