The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

T o the untrained eye, the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), in northeastern South Africa, is kind of unassuming. It’s roughly the same size as West Virginia – or, for metric users, the Republic of ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

A "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica is offering scientists a rare glimpse into Earth's deep interior, a dynamic record of slow-moving processes that have been reshaping our planet for tens of millions ...

Open an atlas and look closely at the world map. Notice how the eastern coast of South America seems to match the western edge of Africa. It almost lo.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Millions of years before the Sahara became a desert, it was a vibrant ecosystem. Bordering the ancient Tethys Sea, which broke up the supercontinent Pangaea, the region was home to massive dinosaurs, ...

An astonishing discovery has been made atop the world’s highest peak. Fossils of marine life have been uncovered at over ...

With recent earthquakes felt in parts of Dorchester County and the Midlands in recent weeks, we look at the history of ...

The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red ...

Earth’s continents are not fixed in place. They drift, collide, and break apart over hundreds of millions of years, and new ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...