Giant icebergs once scraped the seafloor near Britain, offering clues about ancient ice shelves and future sea-level rise.

The land bridge created by mantle-driven uplift gave early primates and other animals opportunities to branch out.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Earth's oceans, once green due to high levels of oxidized iron and anaerobic photosynthesis, could change color again. Early photosynthetic organisms used iron ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct into Earth’s mantle. Compositional anomalies, formed millions of years ago, ...

There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 ...

Each tool locker features a shelf that can raise up to astronauts' chest height, making it easy for ... operated autonomously or by controllers on Earth, allowing it to explore the lunar surface ...

This global map of seafloor features is based on ocean height data from the SWOT satellite. Purple denotes regions that are lower compared to higher features such as seamounts and abyssal hills, ...

Map of projected first appearance ... NASA was mostly shut down for January 2019, but Earth wasn’t. In case you missed it, here are some of the big stories we didn’t cover during the impasse.

Scientists are still divided on the exact timeline that led from Mars’ wet past, when it was more akin to ancient Earth, to its current barren status. But it is clear that ancient Mars did have ...