New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its ... for scientists to detect through the rigid, thick outermost layer of Earth. So, Li wasn’t really expecting to find what she did.

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s crust. This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid ...

For example, mantle rocks are currently flowing toward Scandinavia to replace material that was pushed aside by the weight of ...

causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s crust. This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid inner Earth ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life return.

Stone Age humans mastered fire technology during Earth's harshest climate period 23,000 years ago, creating hearths that ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its ... or plume of hot material, from underneath Earth’s crust created a low point that the glaciers would finish carving out and ...