Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

Researchers have precisely dated key fossil sites in Central Anatolia, Türkiye, to 7-10 million years ago using a new ...

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

Scientists Propose to Build a Modern Noah’s Ark to Preserve 6.7 Million Earth Species on the Moon For decades, scientists ...

"There's a danger of trying to draw conclusions from millions of years ago and directly apply it to conservation. We have to be cautious," said co-author Randy Irmis, curator of paleontology at ...

In South Florida, drinking water comes from the Everglades, a vast landscape of wetlands that has long filtered the water relied on by millions ... That’s why, 25 years ago, the federal ...

were already in place at least 16 million years ago. "What this shows is that playing dead and hiding pays off," said Fiorentino. "Uncovering a unique fossil like this helps us understand how long ...