“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Earth’s rotation is speeding up. This summer, our planet will spin faster than usual, creating the shortest day since records began. Though we cannot sense these changes, they show the forces that ...

A massive meteorite strike 3.5 billion years ago left behind the world’s oldest known impact crater, challenging previous ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Millions of people around the world will pause on Tuesday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

Earth Day has been celebrated across the country — and the globe — for more than 50 years now, and the annual celebration is once again around the corner. While it may seem strange to think of a world ...

Tiny World producer Plimsoll is making an extreme natural history series for ITV. Extreme Planet Earth will see “underscore the high-stakes battle for wildlife survival in an era of extreme weather, ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

A photographic odyssey explores the places on Earth that showcase our unique planet’s evolutionary journey. Evoking a scene from Earth’s past, lava flows from a fissure in Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull ...