For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...

In most Ancient Greek philosophical circles, the theory of a spherical earth was accepted by around the 5th century BC, and ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Carl Sagan explained the thought process of the ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes, who determined the circumference of the ...