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

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

A new study predicts Earth's oxygen will vanish in a billion years. Toho University researchers used NASA models for this ...

A new NASA and Toho University study, utilizing supercomputers, projects Earth's habitability timeline, revealing the ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright celebrated the 56th anniversary of Earth Day by contrasting how the environment looked before ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

New research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ... evolution of non-marine life on Earth. Previously believed to have occurred 1.2 billion ...

New research claims that Earth's oceans could one day turn purple as our ongoing fight with climate change continues.

The study marks a major milestone in extragalactic astronomy, providing unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution ... Earth is now, the images span the period from about 12 billion ...