What can Earth-sized exoplanets teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets throughout the cosmos? This is what a study recently posted to the arXiv preprint server hopes to ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, ...

Let’s start with Genesis 12:3, which Senator Cruz quoted. It obviously does not say we are to bless the “nation of Israel” — ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

A new study finds tree planting alone can't offset carbon from fossil fuel reserves, highlighting the financial and physical ...

The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens — which began with a series of small earthquakes in mid-March and peaked with a cataclysmic flank collapse, avalanche, and explosion on May 18 — was not the largest ...