Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...

Our planet’s continents aren’t done moving—they’re slowly drifting toward each other again, inch by continental inch.

Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years ...

They’ve built a new online tool, Paleolatitude.org 3.0, that lets anyone click a place on Earth and see what latitude it ...

There are people in Germany right now Googling “Brenham, Texas” and booking flights. That’s not an exaggeration. That red ...

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new study in Terra Nova suggests.

Neutron stars are unusual compared to the bulk of the observed universe. In fact, in many ways, they behave more like black ...

Dai’s initial results have revealed that rainfall was low in South Africa during the last glacial maximum and increased as ...

Scientists confirm the northern boundaries of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, is submerged across almost two million ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.