Neytiri's mission to rescue Jake reminds viewers of their love story — and previews the franchise's trip to Earth in Avatar 5 ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

Discover why a quarter of Earth’s geological history seems to have vanished.

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...

Dive into the changing forces of Earth’s magnetic field, understanding how shifts, excursions, and regional anomalies have influenced navigation, wildlife, and human technology throughout history.

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...