This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

The recent surge in warming led to fears that climate change may be accelerating beyond model projections, but a fall in how ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we ... From biggest to small … Your kids may have come home from school singing this infectious ditty, or another like it.

Since 2015, students from across the USA have been partnering with scientists at NASA to advance research on growing plants in space, ultimately to feed astronauts on long-distance space missions, as ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money.

Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life.

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

New research based on samples from asteroid Ryugu reveals that phosphorus-rich compounds could explain how Earth became ...

The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the ...

Earth is bracing for an extreme geomagnetic storm this week after the sun blasted a massive solar flare toward our planet this week. Sunspot AR3842 - a dark, fast-growing region of strong magnetic ...

The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth ... of kids that didn't grow up who thought, "Hm, I want to do something really cool, something really gung-ho, sort of out there kind of science ...