A solar eclipse recorded in China more than 2,700 years ago is giving scientists a fresh look at how Earth used to rotate.

Soil frozen for millennia is thawing, and its chemical payload is traveling downstream.

It’s called the Great Unconformity, and it’s a gap in the geologic record,” says Nicolas Flament, a geoscientist at the ...

Many pre-Socratic Greek philosophers were wrong about the form of our planet. Thales – founder of the Milesian School of natural philosophy, whom Aristotle regarded as the first philosopher in the ...

A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ...

Scientists discovered that Arctic sled dogs have unusually short lower leg bones, a trait that may have helped them pull ...

Ancient marine reptiles found in Colombia reveal a possible new pattern in Earth's evolution, where declining species ...

Sometimes what is missing can tell us more about the story of Earth than what we can see.” Earth’s geological history is like ...

Ancient Chinese solar eclipse records reveal something extraordinary about Earth’s rotation - Sun may have been near the peak ...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet-sized object collided with the newly formed Earth, throwing out the debris that would ...

Learn how the discovery of mineralized red blood cells and blood-related molecules in fossilized bones offer new insights about the longevity of biological material.

Scientists used satellite radar technology to find the structure, which is larger than a football field, beneath the ancient ...