Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

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.

Skai TV, Greece confirmed as a co-production partner and agrees multi-year partnership for BBC Earth programming block ...

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

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

Trump delivered a speech in a language that is a cross between Doublespeak and Psychological Projection.

Behind record harvests and global food supply lies a deeper cost: soil erosion, water depletion, and biodiversity collapse.