When you think about our origin story, and of our planet -- among all of the planets in the cosmos -- there is a deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT-led researchers uncovered rare potassium isotope anomalies in ancient rocks, revealing hidden remnants of proto-Earth. (CREDIT ...

Archaeologists have discovered a cluster of Roman tombs beneath a modern street in Rome, revealing changing burial practices.

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to ...

Sunken slabs from long-lost tectonic plates are still churning around in Earth's interior, far below your feet. In a new ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — a roiling mixture of rock and metal condensing within the nascent solar ...