Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

The climate warmed up almost as quickly 56 million years ago as it is doing now. When a huge amount of CO2 entered the ...

Long before Earth formed, tiny mineral grains were already drifting through space, forged in the final breaths of dying stars ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in an Oklahoma cave, revealing the oldest known example dating back nearly 300 million years.

Tiny crystals buried in Australia’s coastal sands have captured signals from space, helping scientists chart erosion and ...