Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

It seemed that last year’s wildfire in Los Angeles had been extinguished safely after two days. But it had just gone ...

Earth’s familiar green landscape might not have always been so. According to new scientific research published in the ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...