Hidden in Japan’s bubbling hot springs, scientists may have found living echoes of Earth’s earliest organisms: survivors from ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states ...

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Congress is barreling toward a government shutdown with both sides digging in two days before the Oct. 1 funding deadline. Republicans are insisting on a “clean” continuing resolution that would fund ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

Scientists have recently uncovered a fascinating geological formation deep in the Pacific Ocean that bears a striking resemblance to a ‘Yellow Brick Road’. This peculiar discovery has captured the ...

The Baltimore Ravens are on the wrong end of history once again after another gut-wrenching loss in primetime. Baltimore fell to 1-2 on the season after a 38-30 loss to the Detroit Lions at home on ...