Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

A new study suggests a massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago, far larger than the dinosaur killer, may have acted as a "giant fertilizer bomb" on early Earth. This impact, releasing ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

‘My work focuses on estimating early Earth’s history. In the last few years, I’ve worked on the Hadean Eon which was about 4.5 billion years ago — this is the most mysterious part of our ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet named Theia slammed into the young Earth, causing a massive cataclysm that reshaped the very structure of the planet. This was a direct hit ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

Iron ore deposits are about 1.3 billion years younger than previously believed, reshaping both scientific thinking and mining ...

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field seems to rise and fall hand-in-hand with the abundance of oxygen in its atmosphere, a ...

Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

A predator that swam Earth's oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that lives on our planet today. Mosura fentoni possessed three eyes, grasped its prey with spiny claws, ...