A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made temple — despite being over 10,000 years old.

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Earth's magnetic field flips every 200,000 to 300,000 years on average, but it's been 780,000 years since the last one.