Ancient eruptions may have triggered conditions for oxygen ‘whiffs’ in the atmosphere In a nutshell Massive volcanic events known as Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) likely released carbon dioxide, ...

More information: Yasuto Watanabe et al, Mechanistic links between intense volcanism and the transient oxygenation of the Archean atmosphere, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen ... geological and chemical changes during the late Archean eon (3.0-2.5 billion years ago) of Earth's geologic history.

Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...

Their findings suggest that volcanic activity helped create the perfect conditions for the oxygen-rich atmosphere needed to sustain all life on our planet. Focusing on the late Archean eon (3 billion ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

Biogeochemical cycles billions of years ago. A complex web of interactions between geological features including volcanoes, ...