Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Nearly 660 kilometers (410 miles) beneath Earth's surface lies one of the planet's most important internal boundaries. Known ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how water shaped Earth’s evolution three billion years ago ...

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth ...

Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four billion ...

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Journey through the monumental history of the cosmos, from the emergence of the first stars following the Big Bang to the ...

A surprising reversal in molten iron flow beneath the Pacific is giving scientists a sharper view of how Earth’s magnetic ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

(Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) If potted plants always seem to die under your care, you can take solace in ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...