The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among the first to engage in oxygenic photosynthesis.

Everyone knows the Earth has constantly evolved over the course of billions of years, and the natural landscapes we see today ...

A devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake has hit central Myanmar, with aftershocks causing structural damage as far as Bangkok.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the U.S. this weekend, but only a select few of the northernmost states are ...

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

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

Faculty of Science prof used novel approach of applying fluid dynamics and chemistry to planetary sciences for modelling study published in Nature ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.