New evidence from rocks, molecules and machine learning is forcing scientists to redraw the opening chapters of Earth’s story ...

A missing piece of Earth's evolutionary timeline may have been found. Using computational modeling, a team of scientists explored how working backwards from modern biochemistry could help map out how ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

CAMBRIDGE -- The temperature of a planet is linked with the diversity of life that it can support. MIT geologists have now reconstructed a timeline of the Earth's temperature during the early ...

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought. A new temperature timeline that combines geologic data with computational simulations reveals a ...

Eight reactions could connect ancient Earth to modern day. Here's how. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A missing piece of Earth's ...