Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

As far as immutable facts go, the number of continents would seem to be one of them, but is there another continent hiding in ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

Mars, Jupiter and Mercury will all appear low in the west after sunset. Look for bright Venus low in the eastern sky for about two hours before the sun rises all month long. The crescent moon and ...