During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

The United States has a habit of showcasing its geology. Long before cities and highways showed up, forces beneath the ...

Britain braced Thursday for potentially life-threatening winds, rains and snowfall as a severe storm headed in from the ...

Deep beneath Alaska's frozen soils, scientists have awakened microbes frozen for up to 42,400 years, revealing how ancient ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, ...

While the Milankovitch Cycles operate on timescales far longer than human lifespans, their effects are always at play.

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

At the end of the year, each team will choose the final list of nominations and determine the Selected List’s Top Ten from ...

The most startling revelation regarding 3I/ATLAS concerns its age. Associate Professor Michele Bannister of the University of ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.