Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

But the very heart of our planet remains a mystery. For many years, scientists believed that iron and nickel made up Earth’s ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil, Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, is turning evolutionary theories upside ...

Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little. Two missions, taking readings as they passed ...

Cyanobacteria—ancient microbes that oxygenated Earth and made complex life possible—are still revealing surprises billions of ...

Magnetic rocks with iron oxide concentrations act as natural chroniclers of Earth's past continental movements. Using small ...

Conway Morris Joins Past Laureates Freeman Dyson, the Dalai Lama, and Jane Goodall to Receive One of the World’s Largest Individual Lifetime Achievement Awards ...

One of the longest-running sci-fi movie franchises made its television debut in 2025, and its first series has done something ...

Tuscany might be the last place anyone would expect a supervolcano to be hiding. This picturesque region of central ...

Professor Simon Conway Morris, Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Fellow of St John's College ...

Scientists reveal how long Earth will remain habitable, from rising temperatures to ocean loss and the Sun’s final red giant ...