The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...
The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...
The surface of our planet is a true geological theater where a permanent spectacle of movements and transformations takes place. These impressive phenomena result from plate tectonics, a ...
A new study examines nickel and urea in early microbial habitats, showing how ancient cyanobacteria adapted to their chemical ...
The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the ...
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...
Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...
Earth has never stood still. Over its 4.5 billion years of history, our planet has been reshaped by different cataclysms and climate shifts. The atmosphere went through several changes, oceans froze ...
New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth's atmosphere haven't been this high in millions of years. It's a striking ...
Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...