Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted during the Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal 780,000 years in the past. Though you ...

More information: G Robert Brakenridge, Late Quaternary supernovae in Earth history, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf554 ...

Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...