More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

The seabed off southern Japan has long held shapes that look out of place. Divers near Amami Oshima Island began noticing ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

IN a world where nature and culture intertwine, woven through history and ecology to shape rich biological and historical identities the concept of geological conservation stands out as a vital pillar ...

Relatives of the humble sea sponge have filtered Earth's waters for hundreds of millions of years or more, long before the first plants took to land. Their simplicity has led scientists to suggest ...

The map shows diverse geological features shaping Antarctic glaciers from below, which can improve climate models of ice melt ...

Three billion years ago, you could have stood on Mars and watched a river spill into a sea. That picture is still speculative ...

Geographic location and the structure in which our accountable institutions operate affects their risk of being exploited for ...

The red planet was half blue, according to space scientists. A research team using images from cameras on Mars-orbiting ...

The United Nations has recognized China-Cambodia joint research in the karst critical zone as a prime example of South-South ...

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.