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

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and evolutionary resilience. Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of ...

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Evolution might allow for multiple optimal solutions, depending on the constraints and conditions under which an organism ...

But evolution has no finish line ... This distinguishes them from the more than 350,000 species of seed plants living on Earth today. Imagine taking a fertile fern leaf, shrinking it down and ...

“Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself.”– Kenneth R. Miller, Biologist, Brown University If you are reading this sentence, you’re ...