Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

But evolution has no finish line ... This distinguishes them from the more than 350,000 species of seed plants living on Earth today. Imagine taking a fertile fern leaf, shrinking it down and ...

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...