Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

How far could life go — in space and in time? Life Beyond – Chapter 1 explores the possibility of alien life in the context ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...