One day, many billions of years in the future, the Sun will no longer be the life-nourishing star it is now. Once it runs out ...
In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth's oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years.
As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe ...
Earth’s last great survivor may not be humanity, or even animals. It may be photosynthesis itself. Cacti, some algae, and ...
An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion ...
Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...