Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

The idea that life on Earth arose through a series of improbable "hard" evolutionary steps may be misjudged, according to a ...

Pockets of liquid water existed on Earth already 4.1 billion years ago, with the ... preventing life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million years. "To understand the origin ...

That's not even close to the size of the "planet-killer" asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ... are 1 kilometer across or larger and could have a devastating effect on life.

Related ESA monitoring asteroid that could strike Earth NASA finds 'key to life' in Bennu ... far away" nearly 600 million light years from Earth. Science News // 1 week ago SpaceX launches ...

New Research on Ancient Life ... 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% ...

Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion years to 600 million years ago, probably shaped the evolution of the cyanobacteria that filled the atmosphere with breathable quantities ...

On Earth, the land moves ... Research has come up with dates ranging from 800 million years ago to 4 billion years ago, not long after the planet formed. Now, the reason for this huge discrepancy ...

Titled "Ancient Life," it tells the story of what life was like in what is now New Mexico 300 million years ago in the Paleozoic Era, when it was near the Equator, next to multiple seas ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Arctic glaciers are leaking significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Glacial melt rivers and groundwater springs are transporting large volumes of methane from ...