The Gaia hypothesis / James E. Lovelock -- Comparison of planetary atmospheres : Mars, Venus, and Earth / Michael McElroy -- Chemical evolution in a hydrogen cyanide world / Clifford Mathews -- ...

Scientists have spent decades cataloging life on Earth’s surface, from rainforest canopies to ocean trenches. But a growing body of research now shows that a vast, hidden biosphere thrives kilometers ...

The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a series of planetwide transformations—formation of the ocean, evolution of ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

Comparison of planetary atmospheres : Mars, Venus, and Earth / Michael McElroy -- Cosmochemical evolution and the origins of life / Cyril Ponnamperuma -- Origin of life : polymers before monomers? / ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

A surprising observation has recently highlighted a close relationship between our planet's magnetic field and the oxygen content of its atmosphere. Over more than half a billion years, these ...

Some 2.5 million years ago, viruses in Lake Tanganyika experienced an unexplained explosion in diversity. A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ‘nearby’ ...

Ben Woodcroft receives funding from the ARC. Adrián A. Davín does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has ...