Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.

For the service's 20th anniversary, Google was inspired by a social media trend from last year in which people shared ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...