A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new ...

Fossil plankton reveal oceans shifted dramatically 200,000 years before Earth’s great warming, offering new warnings for ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

New research from the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo suggests iron-rich ecosystems played a ...

Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

Scientists have successfully recreated a poignant sound of a past event, where Earth’s magnetic field dramatically flipped ...

Unearthing the mysteries of our planet’s past, ancient maps offer a unique window into the world as it once was, depicting ...

Beans plants evolved nitrogen-fixing tricks - an ancient secret that could help crops grow with less fertilizer and transform ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have taken a major step toward settling a question long on humanity’s mind of if life ever ...