The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to ...

Today’s maps lie — because for most of human history, the world looked nothing like this. During the last Ice Age, ice sheets ...

Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about countless stars.

Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...

The curious minds at What If discover what Earth was like 2 billion years ago, exploring early life, atmosphere, and ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

As NASA fosters technologies needed to live and work farther away from home than ever before, the agency’s Technology Transfer program.

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

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow seas like a s ...

Ask people how Stonehenge was built and you'll hear stories of sledges, ropes, boats and sheer human determination to haul ...