By studying life deep inside a former gold mine, a Northwestern University-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence that ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and life sciences (including physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, soil science, geology, and geography) to the ...

New research suggests Earth’s first complex life stayed close to the seafloor and depended on oxygen to survive.

New research suggests Earth’s climate can swing wildly on surprisingly short timescales — even during hot, ice-free ...

Our planet may have had a recent change of heart. Earth’s inner core may have temporarily stopped rotating relative to the mantle and surface, researchers report in the January 23 Nature Geoscience.

China has built an ecosystem of more than 40 specialist rare earth laboratories and at least 11 universities and technical ...

Earth's current largest ocean, the Pacific, blankets more than 30% of the planet's surface, stretching 12,000 miles (19,000 kilometers) at its widest point, between Colombia and the Malay Peninsula, ...