But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Scuba diving at Iceland’s Silfra Fissure offers adventurers a chance to explore a submerged canyon between the Eurasian and ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

The solid outer part of the Earth is known as the lithosphere, which is separated into several tectonic plates. These plates are in constant motion, and their movements can be tracked accurately ...

"Earth is the only planet with plate tectonics that we know so far," Doucet said, "and we want to understand how this whole system works and why it's so peculiar." Stephanie Pappas is a ...