An ancient supercontinent called Nuna gave way to create conditions for the evolution of more complex life on Earth. Nuna is ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice on Earth—an incredible six million years old—deep in the frozen expanse of East Antarctica. The ice, along with ancient air bubbles trapped ...

Ancient supercontinent Nuna's breakup around 1.5 billion years ago set off a chain of events that made Earth more habitable, ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester published a new study which suggests that the development of earth’s solid inner core had everything to do with the rejuvenation of the swirling liquid iron ...

Researchers at Curtin University have found evidence of an almost four-billion-year-old piece of the earth’s crust that lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia. In their view, ...

Cemented dunes in Gale Crater reveal evidence of late-stage water that may have preserved organic signals beneath the Martian ...

Because she studies ancient water on Earth, Barbara Sherwood Lollar is usually looking down, but her work is also making her look to the stars. Sherwood Lollar, an earth sciences professor at the ...