At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

New findings on the 3,000-year-old Imago Mundi tablet suggest it may contain clues to Noah’s Ark’s location, blending myth ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

To take the guided tour of Europa, visit trek.nasa.gov/europa, click on the "hamburger" icon on the top left of the screen, ...

Plate tectonics had arranged the world's continents into a single massive landmasses: Pangaea. Today I attempt to use my knowledge of geography to create a basic map of what this land might have ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called ...

Researchers from the British Museum have revealed some exciting news: they’ve deciphered a 3,000-year-old tablet that appears ...

A massive undertaking to map cancer tumours is providing new insights into how the disease forms, evolves and develops resistance to treatments ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet. But about 175 million years ago, the Earth broke apart into continents, and ...