Glaciers once inched toward the sea, gouging rocks. When the ice masses melted, they infused oceans with nutrients that may ...

Silent film reading Earth's story from erosion and fossils — origin of solar system, appearance of life, effects of glacial ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, greys and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Benjamin Mills, Professor of Earth System Evolution in Leeds' School of Earth and Environment, supervised the project. He added that the results of the research had important implications for ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Recent research published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta reveals that water reached Earth during the late ...