A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

The Whole History of the Earth and Life is a documentary which portrays the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, and the emergence and evolution of life on Earth.

"Outgrowth of the LPI Conference on the Origin of the Earth, which was held in Berkeley, California in December 1988"--Preface. 3D solar nebula models : implications for earth origin / A.P. Boss -- ...

Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee Everything that has a beginning has an end. But the Earth will last for a very long time, and its end will come billions of ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects of viscosity in their simulation, they revealed a self-sustaining dynamo ...

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.