What did long-necked dinosaurs eat—and where did they roam to satisfy their hunger? A team of researchers has reconstructed ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

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, ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York. But a ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

As twilight falls, one of the first stars to appear during summer evenings is Vega, positioned almost directly overhead.  Looking at Vega ...

Live Aid broke the deafening silence around famine in Ethiopia. Forty years later, the enduring power of its message of ...

Astronomers made a significant discovery. They observed the initial stages of rocky planet formation. This happened around a young star similar to our sun. The star is named HOPS-315. Scientists used ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...