Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern hemisphere before moving north – and beyond ...

Webster Elementary’s third-grade students recently delivered a captivating performance of The Boy Who Spoke to the Earth, ...

Only four of the Boston Harbor drumlin islands, Deer Island, Nut Island, World's End and Webb Memorial, are accessible by car ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Researchers recently searched for deltas on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, but came up empty. While Titan features rivers and ...

A new study by Prof. Ariel Chipman of The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

A NASA tool will generate your name using Landsat imagery, and give you the coordinates for each letter. Here's how to create ...

The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Scientists have known for a while that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has rivers and seas of liquid methane on its surface.