While the Earth has experienced countless climate variations during its long history, a longstanding hypothesis known as ...

Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of years ago.

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

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks ... disruption of life on our planet — including Snowball Earth.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Learn about the rapid melting of the last Ice Age and how it led to the era of the 'plumeworld ocean' on Earth.

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

Billions of years ago meteorites hit the planet frequently, and one such space rock crashed down about 3.26 billion ... and assistant professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences, ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...