Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Texas A&M University geologist Mike Tice was on the international team of scientists that analyzed data from NASA's ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

Moving ice on early Earth exposed deep rocks, freed key elements, and nudged our planet toward conditions where complex life ...

Maternal stress in lizards slows offspring growth but unexpectedly strengthens their social bonds within families.

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...

Michael Gurven on the 3 greatest revelations he had while writing Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer ...

Billions of years ago, Mars may not have been the frozen desert we see today. New simulations suggest that volcanic eruptions pumped out reactive sulfur gases, creating greenhouse effects strong ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

Today, Earth’s moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of ...