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

Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the red planet and even contain evidence for past ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This tectonic shift reduced volcanic carbon emissions, expanded shallow seas, and ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

A new analysis of zircon crystals from the Stac Fada Member in northwest Scotland has revealed a billion-year-old meteorite impact event that may have reshaped the trajectory of life on Earth. The ...

Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic clues suggest early bacteria were ...