A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

Glaciers that came as far south as New York and Wisconsin, as some did 18,000 years ago, were not the ... it's been about 600 million years since the earth has had this sort of problem.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

It's a very special kind of eruption, thought to be quite violent, that occurred a long time ago in the Earth's history ... hundreds of million of years, and then start growing again.

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

From outer space threats to dangerous dino drama — from super-powered action to robotic horror — and from mega-budget ...

For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...

An investigation by the BBC World Service and BBC Verify traced the two boxes' journey, showing how weapons from the US reach Haiti. It reveals a chain of lax laws, absent checks and suspected ...