Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Ancient rock crystals from Australia suggest that early Earth might not have been as different as scientists had thought from the planet that exists today. Earth’s earliest history is shrouded in ...

Chemical evidence from ancient crystals suggests that Earth’s tectonic plates had already started moving 3.3 billion years ago, relatively early in our planet’s history. By analysing zircon crystals ...

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James ...

Study of tooth enamel reveals that the Sumerians did not eat fish despite living by the sea, challenging what we thought ...

Ancient ice records show Earth’s oceans cooled over millions of years despite stable greenhouse gases, highlighting the role of oceans.

Ever been to an event that's 85 million years in the making? That's how long ago an asteroid struck the area we know as Wetumpka. The collision made one heck of a dent. The impact crater is five miles ...

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole Dome, they were ancient, weathered, and largely ignored for the better part ...

For centuries, the large, mysterious earth rings rising out of the hills in the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country near Sunbury, on the outskirts of Melbourne, have puzzled archaeologists and historians ...

A NASA rover has discovered signs of an ancient river beneath Mars' surface, using ground-penetrating radar to reveal buried ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?