Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

L ike many of us, Earth bears old pockmarks. Our planet’s crust has a band of ancient craters that formed around 465 million ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

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Billions of years ago, Earth was home to extreme environments, including intense UV radiation, frequent volcanic eruptions, ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Earth likely evolved in not just a special ... evolutionary steps but—at least in part—related to the co-evolution of the planet and its host star. I would anticipate the number of planets ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

The evolution of Earth’s life is often discussed and debated in terms of what’s happening on our planet. Life adjusts according to cooperation and competition, climate change and human impact.