Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

"Consciousness," although challenging to define, can be thought of as a first-person awareness of one's surroundings and ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

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

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around ...