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

On Sunday, NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will deliver a sample it collected from asteroid Bennu, completing a seven-year journey that could provide insights into how life originated on Earth.

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

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

Newly analyzed jawbones from 380-million-year-old lungfish are shedding light on the feeding behaviors of our earliest ...

China last month donated to the United Nations the first open-access, high-resolution map of Earth's land cover, as a contribution towards global sustainable development and combating climate ...

Rocks from space that land on Earth are known as meteorites. Giant impacts, such as the one that likely ended the reign of the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, caused by an asteroid or comet ...

Land plants changed Earth's composition. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 08 / 220830131636.htm. University of Southampton.

Science Earth’s Land Masses Are Drying Out Fast, Scientists Warn Researchers comparing satellite measurements of the planet’s water with the wobble in its rotation identified a steady loss of ...

Researchers identify more than 40 per cent of the Earth's land surface area that needs protecting in order to avoid an impending ecological "crisis". Skip to main content. ABC News.