Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. The first period of the history of the Earth was known as the Hadean Period which lasted ...

A dangerous weather phenomenon called a bomb cyclone that occurs in mid-latitudes — between Earth’s tropics and the polar ...

Right after Earth was born, it is believed to have been a hostile volcanic hellscape filled with magma. The Hadean period, ...

New modeling research reveals that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is particularly vulnerable to ...

The Grand Canyon reveals new insights into Earth's Cambrian Explosion and rapid marine biodiversity evolution.

NASA harnesses the power of supercomputing to advance our understanding of the universe, from redesigning launch pads for Artemis II to developing AI for climate modeling. These innovations are ...

A new study suggests that three types of coarse-grained rocks could be attributed to the first continents emerging about 3.5 billion years ago. Once the oceans cooled and developed on Earth, that was ...

Boszhira Valley in Kazakhstan was once submerged beneath the Tethys Ocean. The ocean disappeared over millions of years. It ...

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

Roughly 233 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass ... moment in our planet’s history that reshaped life both on land and in the oceans. Back in the Late Triassic ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably ...

"This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator," Liam Courtney-Davies, lead author of the new study and a postdoctoral ...