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

A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...

A museum showing cultural relics dating back 3,900 to 4,300 years opened to the public Tuesday in north China's Shanxi ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

TAIYUAN, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- A museum showing cultural relics dating back 3,900 to 4,300 years opened to the public Tuesday in north China's Shanxi Province, offering a look at early Chinese state ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as ...

The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the seismic-shifting saga of Zealandia ... built from the ancient seabed we'll ...

Indeed, these remnants are linked to the Earth's internal movements, which are much more complex than previously thought. A map of the East Pacific Rise region where the discovery of an ancient sea ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, the University of Tokyo, and Hokkaido University have developed a model considering various atmospheric chemical reactions to estimate how the atmosphere - and the ...

The study is published in Astrobiology. "Ancient Earth was nothing like our current home," explains Shungo Koyama from Tohoku University, "It was a much more hostile place; rich in metallic iron ...