New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world.

Recent discoveries make this connection even stronger. Scientists found that special rocks in the deep sea can make oxygen ...

Learn more about an algae bloom that’s causing sea lions to act erratically, leading to a few cases of aggression.

Small fossils show mammals moved to the ground before the dinosaurs vanished. New plants changed habitats, giving better food ...

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according to a study published March 19 in the journal Nature. The findings could help ...

Carbon dioxide is a vital resource for life on Earth, specifically for photosynthesis of plants and for keeping the planet ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet ... multitude of sea creatures died here — a “mass death assemblage” — and sank to the bottom of what was then a shallow sea.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 ...