The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, ...

When the earth drinks in the last of the floodwaters, the places that remain will be different than they were before—turned ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

“We Are Eating the Earth,” argues for producing more food on less land to avert climate crisis.

Shares of the little-known mining company soared on Thursday on news that the Pentagon would become the largest shareholder.

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Wyoming’s exploding rare earth industry continues to attract attention. The latest is Argyle Resources Corp., which has filed ...

Point Nemo, the loneliest and most remote expanse of ocean on Earth, is where spacecraft go when they die. The South Pacific region, the farthest point in the ocean from any land, is named after ...

Scientists uncover signs that Earth’s resilience to carbon emissions may be unraveling faster than climate models suggest. A ...