Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the ...

Girguis, a professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, specializes in biochemistry and ecological physiology ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Eric Ralls was born and raised in East Texas, where his family's engagement in the oil and real estate sectors exposed him from an early age to the intricate balance between human development and ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Earth's oceans may have displayed a very different color several billion years ago. This hypothesis emerges from a recent ...

A simulation on the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team ...

A new UCLA-led study shows that the 2022 eruption of underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai did not warm the planet as was expected but actually reduced temperatures over the Southern Hemisphere ...

NASA spotted a circle of clouds over the Pacific Ocean, and the image is still breathtaking over 10 years later.

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...