If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Florida State University Assistant Professor of Geology, Emily Stewart, has conducted new research that questions the ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

Sedimentary rocks deposited in deepwater ... Atmospheric influences of Earth’s earliest sulfur cycle. Science 289, 756–758 (2000). Goldblatt, C. & Zahnle, K. J. Clouds and the faint young ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

New research suggests that about 3.6 billion years ago, Mars featured vast water flows and a lake rivaling the size of the ...

All three of orbital cycles — called Milankovitch cycles — impact African climate on long geologic timescales, but the cycle with ... Mediterrenean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 136 ...

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have shown that weathering of rocks in the Canadian ... today in the journal Science Advances. Up to now, however ...

A once-in-80,000-year sight will make its closest approach to Earth this weekend before heading ... and are composed of a mixture of ice, dust, rock and gases. “Some comets do not survive ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...