Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

There are huge, invisible structures in the ionosphere that are high above the surface of the Earth. These structures are ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

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Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Rain comes when water molecules in the atmosphere clump together to form ice crystals or water droplets that are heavy enough to fall to the ground. But what causes that clumping to happen?

In this week’s edition of Science for All, Priyali Prakash explains how lunar dust simulants affect human lungs.