Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable ...

Before Pangea ever existed, Earth already pulled off a massive experiment called Nuna, and it quietly changed life forever.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents formed during the Archean time, more than 2.5 billion years ago. Their findings ...

Earth has never stood still. Over its 4.5 billion years of history, our planet has been reshaped by different cataclysms and climate shifts. The atmosphere went through several changes, oceans froze ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to ...

Lead author Dr Alfred Wilson (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds) said: "It is exciting to see how atomic scale processes control the fundamental structure and dynamics of our planet ...

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 ...