One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Carbon pollution released today keeps shaping tomorrow’s lives, reducing the years people can live in decent health and ...

The very latest developments in the world of Earth science with Roland Pease, recorded at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in New Orleans, where thousands of Earth, atmospheric, glacial, ...

Life on our planet emerged quickly or, at least, it did so on a geological timescale. Fossils reveal that micro-life existed ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

Mars may have once possessed an ocean at least as large as Earth's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. Previous research ...

A former policy expert of the Bank of England told The Times of London that politicians and bankers can’t afford to dismiss ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...

NASA approaches the next phase of its deep space return program. Artemis 2 will be the first crewed mission to the Moon since ...

Learn more about the number of satellites circling Earth and the multiple ways they are changing the sky.

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...