Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere ... smack in the middle of the hellish geologic nightmare known as the Hadean Eon. “The evolutionary history of genes is complicated by their exchange between ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Barry Wilmore said that astronauts, NASA and Boeing need to spend time analyzing the Starliner mission to improve future ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ... and the craters left behind might have been the place that life on Earth began. The scientists involved were able to identify ...

Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.