As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

A trip to a local pond brings a whole new respect knowing the beaked inhabitants evolved when T-Rexes were still around.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and between the atmosphere and biosphere, and they help researchers and ...

A rice farm in southern Brazil was just found to be home to the fossil of one of the missing links between the ground-based ...

"I would say that any modern biologist would, or should, say that birds are reptiles," Martin Stervander, an evolutionary ...

Terry Sohl, chief of EROS Integrated Science and Applications Branch, will give an overview of USGS remote sensing activities with a focus on their application for conservation during the February ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

For her decades of space flight and research with NASA and now Axiom space, Iowa native and prolific astronaut Peggy Whitson ...