Research led by the University of Liverpool has identified magnetic evidence that two immense, ultra-hot rock structures located at the base of Earth’s mantle, around 2,900 kilometres beneath Africa ...

Hidden mega-structures deep inside Earth may have been quietly steering our planet’s magnetic field—and rewriting what we ...

We show how this "cosmic clock" uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.

The end of the dinosaurs was not just a spectacular finish, it was a brutal reset of life on Earth. In the geological instant ...

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 million years ago. However, another of our Scientific Associates Dr Ana Riesgo ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The research ...

National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.