For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

sinking beneath the Earth’s crust as it collided with other plates. Scientists estimate that it persisted for 160 million years before finally disappearing 20 million years ago. The new findings ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

which is thought to have been blown by a series of supernova explosions 10 to 20 million years ago. Earth seems to have entered this bubble about 6 million years ago. Passing through the outer ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Scientists propose Earth ... a million-year stay near dense star nurseries, possibly cooling the planet as Antarctica’s ice grew. Gaia data shows our solar system swung within 65 light-years ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Scientists have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings reveal ... extreme periods of warming in Earth's history: the 'End-Permian ...

Earth is our home planet, and it's the only place in the universe where we know for certain that life exists. Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from ... orbits 93 million miles (150,000 ...

and the Natural History Museum of Vienna have uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate changes 250 million years ago. Their findings, published in GSA Bulletin, reveal the long ...