In the fascinating world of geography, borders between countries are not just lines on a map; they are symbols of history, ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Stanford researchers have created an artificial intelligence tool called SandAI, designed to uncover the history of quartz sand grains dating back hundreds of millions of years.

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

News Release 20-May-2025 Research team traces evolutionary history of bacterial circadian clock on ancient Earth Peer-Reviewed Publication National Institutes of Natural Sciences image: ...

A new study unpacks the last 485 million years of Earth’s temperature history Among other things, the study demonstrates how carbon dioxide in the atmosphere influences temperatures ...

World's oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history Date: March 6, 2025 Source: Curtin University Summary: Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years.

Earth Day has been celebrated across the country for more than 50 years now, and the annual celebration is once again around the corner.

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-S… ...

For decades, scientists have wondered why the moon’s two sides are so different. The side we see from Earth, known as the ...