Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

DC Comics has taken readers to the beginning of their universe and beyond, introducing the oldest villains in comics.

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

We know about fossils and rocks, ice cores and seabeds... but it turns out the Earth has been storing data - on climate, ...

A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar System’s ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Bengaluru, known for its technological advancements, is home to the Peninsular Gneiss, a remarkable rock formation ...

On a cold winter afternoon, as the archaeological work at a well-preserved ancient city site in Longyao county, Xingtai, in ...