Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered in July, will approach Earth on December 19th. This rare visitor from another star ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Climate shapes how ants and parasite interact, fight, and evolve as temperature and humidity drive behavior and genetic ...

All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. And it's so much older than we thought. All life on Earth can be traced ...

Just yesterday (Dec. 15), the Green River levee was breached, raising the specter of flash flooding in Tukwila, south of ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick rock layer, approximately 20 kilometers deep, beneath the Bermuda Triangle.

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...