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 ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

This is the process of evolution in its simplest form ... This is how the diversity of life on Earth came to be. This idea, though, has long been misunderstood as a path that leads in one ...

In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games describes the role of a palaeontologist; someone who studies ancient living things and how planet ... the evolution of life on Earth ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...