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.
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds ... With the new findings, "now people can do lots of other investigations to figure ...