Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Even now, after many years of research, you won’t find much information in books about ancient fire. Indeed, I first started to become interested in this question of fire in the geological past more ...

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New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could survive and evolve.

Talk about a bloody mess. OB-GYNs are in a cramp over a viral idea that’s taken over TikTok: that you can simply “scoop out” your period to avoid the messiness that comes once a month. But docs have ...

The US Geological Survey recorded the first quake near Holtville at 1:40am PT on Wednesday, with the most recent detected on Thursday morning. Hundreds of California residents have issued reports of ...

Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was ...