The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

For modern residents of the Levant, the "Red Sea Trough" usually brings a brief, dusty transition between seasons. But ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

The history of the first plant on Earth is not as simple as the identification of a particular species of plants, but it is a ...

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Tiny fossils from Hokkaido are revealing a surprisingly mobile ancient ocean during a warmer world. A team led by researchers at Kumamoto University has identified a new genus of microscopic ...

The first sea organisms suddenly vanished 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction - The Kotlin Crisis.

New research challenges a key archaeological site in Chile, raising fresh questions about when humans first arrived in the Americas.