When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can destabilize slopes and reactivate faults, which in turn can trigger landslides and reshape the surface of Earth over long periods of time. Researchers can ...
A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...
The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...
Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...
"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," an ...
The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...
For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...
The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the landscape of ...
How exactly these extinct creatures had sex has proved something of a mystery - but now an expert sheds light on this most prehistoric of intercourse.
Researchers have unveiled new findings that reshape our understanding of the Moon's formation and Earth's early hydration.
Researchers discovered that Homo erectus adapted to hyperarid conditions in Tanzania one million years ago, challenging ...
New research shows Australopithecus ate mostly plants, challenging theories about early human diets, meat, and evolution.