How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

A team of researchers has found an unusual spike in beryllium-10 levels in the Pacific seabed, dating back 10 million years.

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Sea turtles navigate using Earth's magnetic field like a GPS. Scientists found they learn and remember magnetic locations.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with ...