Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

The initial discovery of oil in Pennsylvania by Edwin Drake in 1859 was to forever change our uses of energy in the United ...

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks move, melt, and recycle through the mantle. Some of that water carries a ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them. Their fossils still stand, not far from you.

According to the researchers, the deeply buried water is not a static stockpile. It acts like a "lubricant" for the colossal geological engine of Earth, lowering the melting point and viscosity of ...

Far out in the North Atlantic, Bermuda sits atop a broad rise in the seafloor that has troubled Earth scientists for decades.

Europa’s “wall-demon” scar resembles lake stars on Earth, prompting researchers to investigate whether it indicates pockets of water beneath the moon’s frozen surface ...

Scientists may have discovered an atmosphere on a distant planet. Astronomers at NASA used the James Webb Space Telescope to detect evidence suggesting that the rocky planet called TOI-561 b, aka ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the young Earth was a hostile and violent place. Repeated collisions with space rocks left the ...

The island of Mauritius and its surrounding islets were formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago. The island is part ...

Earliest evidence found of rice plants in the Pacific on Guam, revealing rituals and a journey from the Philippines 3,500 years ago.

Scientists believe the hidden layer could be a rare geological leftover from the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea.