Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Astrobotanica features a strong combination of world exploration, free-form potion brewing, environmental puzzles and base ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

MIT-led research uncovered chemical remnants of the proto Earth, offering a glimpse of the planet’s 4.5-billion-year-old ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

Two tiny ingredients in ancient seawater – nickel and urea – may explain why oxygen arrived late on Earth. A team in Japan ...

“Diamonds are a natural work of art in themselves and they’ve been celebrated as such,” Serfaty says, adding that they have ...