Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.

A look at how our quest to understand what everything is made of connects to the periodic table and the history of science.

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

The contradictory geology of the Apennines has long puzzled scientists. (Paolo Corsetti/Moment/Getty Images) Deep beneath our ...

Europe's Vega C lifts a pair of Earth-observation satellites from French Guiana, China targets five launches, and Russia ...

So goes the theory offered by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and published on Monday in The Astrophysical Journal, marking a departure from past explanations for why Venus, the ...

Swallowing the evidence.

Over four centuries ago, a desperate Spanish crew was abandoned in the Strait of Magellan to starve in freezing conditions.

Scientists are debating if fusion energy will stay science fiction – or if it could really replace fossil fuels in the future ...

New simulations suggest the moon may have formed almost instantly after a giant impact, not slowly from a debris disk.

In the future, the researchers project that drylands globally will increase to cover between 39.31 to 40.28 percent of ...