The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the ...

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

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

Between 635 to 541 million years ago, during the Ediacaran Period, Earth witnessed a remarkable emergence of early life.

But what if that wasn't the only time in Earth's history that a space rock triggered an ancient apocalypse? In a new Netflix series, controversial author Graham Hancock claims that an ancient ...

The site, known as the Quebrada Honda Basin (QHB) in the Andes mountains in southern Bolivia, encompasses a time period 13 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch. During the Miocene, the Earth's ...

Experts suggest the conditions caused by the impact of the S2 meteorite 3.26 billion years ago may have caused certain life ...

A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from deep within the Earth long past their period of ...

New research reveals that El Niño, the periodic warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, has been shaping Earth's climate for ...

Researchers studying carbon emissions from ancient volcanoes are exploring the geology of large dikes, such as this one in ...