Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing context for understanding ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

It’s an entirely different kind of space age. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stranded at the International ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

Ocean microbes influence carbon sequestration through their preferences. Different bacteria degrade specific lipids, ...

Mammals independently evolved similar inner ear shapes, showing convergence due to shared environmental pressures.

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

My aunt says if you tried to dig a hole to the other side of Earth, this is what would happen: First, you’d dig through loose ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Astronauts on the International Space Station age slightly slower than the rest of us on Earth due to time-dilation effects.