Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Dickinsonia has now been confirmed as the planet’s oldest known animal, with Russian cliffside fossils containing preserved fat molecules.

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

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

Reports from NASA’s Curiosity rover reveal evidence of ancient liquid water on Mars, challenging previous models. Images from Gale Crater show wave-like ripples, similar to Earth’s lakebeds.

Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the ...