Seasonality shapes much of life on Earth. Most species, including humans, have synchronized their own rhythms with those of ...

A recent studypublished in Nature Geoscienceexplores the future of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that a dramatic decline in ...

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

Earth's carbonate-silicate cycle is expected to drive CO 2 below the minimum level required by vascular land plants, eliminating most macroscopic land life," the authors write. As the sun ...

What water, chemistry and temperature cycles fostered the chemical reactions that allowed life to emerge on our planet? Because life arose in the largely unknown surface conditions of Earth’s early ...

A Journey Through Time and Scale: Experience the evolution of mountain ranges from deep geologic time to modern-day ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

"We really need to understand the life cycle of a planetary body before we can do a lot with the exoplanet data." Only Earth has jigsaw-like tectonic plates that crash together and pull apart like ...