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

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

Earth got stuck. After inventing single-celled organisms and teaching them biochemical tricks such as the energy-creating ...

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

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We also have an extremely strong planet formation theory group, working on problems of planet-disc interaction, gravitational stability of discs, N-nody planet formation models and the influence of ...

These dynamic conditions, in turn, have influenced every living thing that has inhabited the planet. Clearly, Earth is more than just an inanimate, unchanging ball of rock. As much as evolution is ...

Schwieterman’s models suggest the appearance of intelligent life is not necessarily dependent on random evolutionary steps but—at least in part—related to the co-evolution of the planet and ...

Evolution will premiere on PBS September ... of the five mass extinctions that have occurred over the life of the planet and takes us behind the scenes to investigate the sources of the mass ...

These findings by Visscher and his colleagues show the important roles slime played in the evolution of life on planet Earth. Biofilms were places where certain conditions were created that made ...

I will talk about this dataset, and how we have used it to advance studies on both CME evolution and Mercury’s magnetosphere. In extreme cases, CMEs observed by the MESSENGER spacecraft have ...