“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

Ancient tools from central China are flipping the script, revealing early humans were far more innovative than history once gave them credit for.

In one billion years, Earth will be shaped by forces already in motion today. The Sun will burn brighter, continents will ...

Dinosaurs dominate the imagination, but Earth’s deep history is crowded with other rulers, from armored fish and giant ...

The Northeast Ohio native is part of an environmental science class studying the area for its importance to the global ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

History teachers love making everything sound clean and simple. "This happened, then that happened, everyone learned a lesson ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

Six months after its first orbital rocket cleared the launch tower for just 14 seconds before crashing back to Earth, Gilmour ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

By mapping areas where seismometers in southern California detected sonic booms, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...