Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...
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.
Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...
For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.
Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated ...
The blue whale is the largest animal to ever exist — bigger than any dinosaur that walked the Earth. Its heart is the size of ...
The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...
The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.
An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...
A LIFE-THREATENING mishap which left two astronauts stranded has been labelled one of the worst space failures in history. A scathing Nasa report found the 2024 space calamity, which resulted in ...