Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

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

Moroccan rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field once changed fast but followed a hidden order, helping scientists map ...

AI models used ancient zircons to reveal Earth’s earliest crust chemistry, solving a long-standing geologic mystery. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the ...

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

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

Scientists have uncovered exceptionally rare traces of “proto Earth,” the ancient version of our planet that existed about ...

Scientists know some of the broad strokes for how life emerged from primordial Earth, but digging into the processes that allowed for the emergence of an oxygenated atmosphere, processes like ...

The study of young stars like EK Draconis has offered fresh insights into the violent activity of our Sun in its youth. By ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...