A pivotal history of Earth lies submerged beneath the Bering Sea.

In this context, the world is currently witnessing the slow emergence of a sixth ocean. Scientists further claim that if this ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

This video identifies the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth, and also where the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the North and South Poles are located on the planet.

Snowball Earth defines periods of our planet's history when ice spanned the globe, even reaching the equator. The ...

Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. The first period of the history of the Earth was known as the Hadean Period which lasted ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have observed a widespread shift in the color of our oceans, signaling big changes beneath ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

The data collected by GRACE revealed that beginning in May 2014, there was a plunge in Earth's freshwater supply, and the planet has still not recovered. The researchers suggest that this evidence ...

Sharks have roamed the open seas for close to half a billion years and have witnessed the Earth’s evolution from a primordial ...