Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies." ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Long before humans conceptualized nuclear energy, nature had already engineered its own reactor. A geological marvel, a subterranean chamber where uranium ore, bathed in water, spontaneously ignited, ...

Middle East's largest natural history museum celebrates 13.8 billion years of science, discovery, and wonder, with a special ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...

This is the birth of a new museum for north Idaho,” said Leif Tapanila, Director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. “Our ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The Museum of the Earth in Tompkins County is facing potential closure due to lapses in funding from several sources. A ...