The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Dimetrodon's hunting in a Permian era environment. (Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo) The strength of Earth’s ...

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The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

A number of hypotheses have been used to explain how free oxygen first accumulated in Earth’s atmosphere some 2.4 billion years ago, but a full understanding has proven elusive. Now a new model offers ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model. Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the ...