Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

The curious minds at What If discover what Earth was like 2 billion years ago, exploring early life, atmosphere, and continental formation. Carney hits back at Trump over Canada statement Scientists ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse" states. Scientists have long linked these climate ...

ARC Early Career Industry Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne Ben Mather receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Adriana Dutkiewicz ...

Carbon released from Earth’s spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ice ages and warm climates, new research finds. Published today in ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The research ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own nuclear reactors. And they operated for hundreds of thousands of years, as ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

President Gerald R. Ford presented replicas of skis owned by Teddy Roosevelt to the Colorado Ski Museum in Vail, the Vail Trail reported. The event was “celebrating TR’s newly recognized prominence as ...