Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...
Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.
The planet, known as KMT-2020-BLG-0414, is a rocky world 4,000 lightyears away from Earth that orbits a white dwarf, which is the burning remnant of a star. In 5 billion years, our sun is ...
Environmental evidence of the very first experiments in the evolution of complex life on Earth, has been uncovered ... coast of Central Africa over 1.5 billion years earlier.
All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth formed ... planet's oceans about a billion years from now. This has inspired the argument that Earth is an incredibly rare planet that ...
New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...
Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.
Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...