In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated without sunlight to power photosynthesis. Earth became an unrecognizable, ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Star trails over field of wild red poppies on the slopes of Mount Damavand volcano. By utilizing a long exposure, the circular ...

The field of paleoenvironmental geochemistry examines the chemical signatures preserved in Earth’s ancient rocks to reconstruct past environments and decipher the evolution of our planet’s surface ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...