A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

It’s often assumed that Earth is somehow separate from the rest of the universe. Yet changes in environments across the solar ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The Earth's magnetic field has been getting weaker over the past few centuries. This weakening can be seen in data gathered ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

5 mass extinctions wiped out 65–96% of species on Earth, with major events including the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

That’s the compelling argument made by Caleb Scharf—author and senior scientist for astrobiology at NASA Ames Research in ...

I/ATLAS can kill most of human life obliterate a continent and is it visible from Earth? The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may pose no direct threat to Earth, yet its size, speed, unusual behaviour and ...