Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

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

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

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the ...

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...