Learn more about Fiji’s iguana species and how they likely used natural rafts to float to Fiji some 34 million years ago.

The Southern Hemisphere is a world of its own, filled with breathtaking landscapes, unique wildlife, and natural phenomena ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar ...

Oceans are the Earth's most significant biome, covering over 70% of the planet's surface. However, much of the ocean is ...

Photographer George Steinmetz ’79 returned to Stanford to unveil his new book, sharing images of global food production and bringing the realities of meat consumption home to students.

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

Scientists now warn that rising sea levels and shifting climate patterns could, one day, reclaim these dry landscapes, bringing oceans back to places that haven’t seen water for millions of years. By ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking planet Earth less than eight ... of the ocean or a vast desert, nothing would happen.

The planets appear to align from Earth's perspective because they orbit the sun on the same path. Stargazers in California and worldwide were treated to a planet parade of Friday when Earth's ...

"This planet’s atmosphere behaves in ways that challenge our understanding of how weather works — not just on Earth, but on all ... of elevation in the Chilean desert — observed WASP-121b ...