About a billion years ago, Earth started to come into its own. It was past the awkwardness of its younger years full of ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific. They are so ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

A rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I Atlas is currently drifting through our Solar System. At first glance, it might ...

Seagrass fossils show ancient meadows moved toward the poles during warm periods, offering clues for today’s warming oceans.

Earth's first continents may have emerged from the planet's primordial oceans much earlier than we thought, just six hundred million years after the planet formed, new research suggests. The ...

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Earth’s earliest microbes may have built vital chemistry around molybdenum, a metal thought too scarce to matter in ancient ...

Scientists have discovered the "fossilized fingerprint" of a chunk of seafloor that was hiding beneath the Pacific Ocean in Earth's mantle. A new study shows that this fingerprint corresponds to a ...