The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology discusses the significance of paleontology, Earth history and science in this ...

NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory has taken flight, and will soon start a two-year mission to study Earth's mysterious "halo".

A recent study suggests oxygen leaking from Earth's atmosphere may be behind the presence of hematite, a type of rust, near ...

Around the world, international borders are hardening. Nations are competing for resources, technology and even orbits. But in Vienna this June, a different vision took center stage. One where space ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

The Moon has consistently accompanied Earth for over 4.5 billion years, serving as its sole natural satellite. This enduring relationship is pivotal to various environmental processes, notably the ...

Imagine a world where the Earth suddenly stopped spinning. While this may sound like science fiction, scientists have studied the consequences of such a scenario to understand the delicate balance of ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...