The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Scientists know some of the broad strokes for how life emerged from primordial Earth, but digging into the processes that ...

Early Earth "seesawed" between clear skies and haze, a new study finds. The research, published online March 18 in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that 2.5 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

The surface of our planet is a true geological theater where a permanent spectacle of movements and transformations takes place. These impressive phenomena result from plate tectonics, a ...

Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror. They simultaneously simulate the interacting, chaotic flow of ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will capture the first full images of Earth’s exosphere, helping protect astronauts and guide the search for life.

Witnessing a meteor, or \"shooting star,\" is a dazzling event caused by tiny space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere.