The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Each of these books can, in its own way, teach readers how to think about Earth's history, and how to apply lessons from the past to our future.

Four miles beneath the Permian Basin's arid Texas terrain, advanced drilling has revealed 1.6 billion barrels of oil locked ...

During his remarks to military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico several weeks ago in September, Donald Trump ranted ...

Google Maps began the process of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America after a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump made the name change official. It is now ...

This early history of the Maya peoples in Mesoamerica details the art and architecture of the Preclassic period, more than ...

According to researchers from Science Tokyo, a new three-dimensional model of the fault beneath the Marmara Sea in Turkey ...

Ancient microbial activity preserved in deep seafloor sediments challenges assumptions about where fragile traces of early ...

Surface water declines will exacerbate groundwater dependence, water experts say ...