When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind.

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...

The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...

Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more ...

"A tectonic reconstruction that spans multiple supercontinent cycles is important to understand the long-term evolution of Earth’s interior, surface environments, and mineral resources," they write.

A series of intense environmental events 100 million years ago led to widespread extinctions of marine species. Scientists ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new ...