Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

The Zond 1 probe was the second Soviet spacecraft to reach Venus, and the first lander to have been sent there. However, ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

"This is maybe the first direct evidence that we've preserved the proto-Earth materials." Scientists have identified what may be the first direct evidence of material left over from the "proto-Earth," ...

What can fossils teach scientists about the climate on ancient Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled traces of Earth’s earliest form, hidden deep within the planet’s mantle. This discovery, based on ...

Magnetic deposits laid down during the Ediacaran Period, 630 million years ago to 541 million years ago, are not inexplicable ...

Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...