Claims linking Atlantis to Ice Age civilizations rely on ancient maps, submerged landscapes, and catastrophic climate events. These arguments are compared with archaeological dating, geology, and ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

A trio of ancient mesas is rewriting what we know about wind, sand, and deep-time geology, captured in stunning detail from space.

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's earliest and least-understood catastrophes: the first mass ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Christina Koch and her Artemis II crewmates have been training since 2023 for the mission that will return humans to lunar ...

Researchers used satellite data to calculate and simulate the sea level in a canyon, getting a glimpse of a huge ocean.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Mars is famous for its volcanoes, canyons and ancient river valleys, but some of its most active geology happens in slow ...

Ancient granite boulders reveal a vast hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier, reshaping understanding of Antarctic ice flow. Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of th ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global ...