Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Melting Antarctic Ice Sheets Will Slow Earth's Strongest Ocean ... has implications for global climate indicators, ... School of Rock: Properties of Rocks in Fault Zones Contribute to Earthquake ...

Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Sulfate-reducing bacteria break down a large proportion of the organic carbon in the oxygen-free zones of Earth, and in the ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Climate change, with its expression in the current mounting climate crisis, is threatening life on Earth as we know it. It is ...

This puts Earth in a so-called "Goldilocks zone," where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. Our planet's atmosphere is mostly made of nitrogen. The next biggest ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...