A team of international scientists might have just identified where a billion years of missing history might have gone ...

There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

The X-Men are the most important group in mutant history, and some of teh oldest mutants on Earth have molded the team.

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

Celebrating his birthday, Olusegun Obasanjo at 89 says he won't die soon. He slammed death rumors and reflected on Africa's ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.