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 ...

The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system ...

When we discuss climate change today, we are mostly concerned with how such change will impact our environment and our lives. We look to the past to help understand climate cycles and how our ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Science writer Ferris Jabr has now reanimated another idea that captured the era’s zeitgeist: the concept of a “living Earth”. In Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life Jabr makes the case that ...

New research suggests complex life on ... things on Earth, of existence — ultimately, where we come from and where we are ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth ... science, with emphasis on human interactions with the environment. Sustainability is a unifying theme throughout the course. The knowledge and skills ...

Hydrologists examine the physical characteristics, distribution & circulation of water above & below the earth’s surface ... environmental, and life sciences to improve and sustain agricultural ...

“Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf," Jerry W. Xuan, a Caltech graduate student who is an author on the Nature paper, said in a press release. "And now we know we were wrong all ...

The Earth, like all the other planets in the solar system, started out its life as a disc of dust and gas orbiting ... Andy Davis in the Geophysical Sciences Department at the University of Chicago ...