Two different teams of scientists made Martian discoveries this week, revealing a little more about our mysterious planetary ...

Around 700 million years ago, Earth was a very different planet—gripped by extreme deep freezes during the Cryogenian period.

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according ...

Disasters can strike at any moment. So, what happens when you know a disaster is coming, but you can’t say precisely when it will strike?

Giant glaciers scraped parts of the Earth's crust, releasing key minerals into the ocean millions of years ago, a study ...

Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by ...

Mark Kimsey, Intermountain Forestry Cooperative, explains the influence of rock type on conifer species’ nutrition and ...