Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...
The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...
A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...
The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...
New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.
A new study examines nickel and urea in early microbial habitats, showing how ancient cyanobacteria adapted to their chemical ...
From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...
High-resolution isotope data show that a modern-like, oxygen-rich atmosphere was not established until 410 million years ago, supporting a 2-billion-year transitional oxygenation of Earth’s surface.
Evolution has long been a topic of controversy in the United States and has been the target of laws and public policies. As part of the Origins Science Scholars series, Kenneth Miller of Brown ...