World's largest iron ore deposit found to date transforms theories about ore formation and should generate trillions of ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so massive it could plunge the Earth into darkness, trigger widespread famine, and alter the planet’s climate for centuries.

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

Scientists drilling deep beneath a quiet region of China weren’t expecting history to clang back at them, but that’s exactly ...

The United States is suddenly positioning itself not just as the world's largest oil producer, but as a potential gatekeeper ...

In 1946, following World War II, during which the U.S. took over the defense of Greenland, President Harry Truman offered ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

In northwestern Greenland, researchers working on the GreenDrill project have cored through a 500-meter-thick ice dome. They ...

Climate change has many culprits, from agriculture to transportation to energy production. Now, add another: the deep ocean ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

For investors, the U.S. government's evolving approach significantly improves the risk-reward profile of domestic critical minerals projects. Direct federal support--through grants, low-cost financing ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...