The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a series of planetwide transformations—formation of the ocean, evolution of ...

The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

A photographic odyssey explores the places on Earth that showcase our unique planet’s evolutionary journey. Evoking a scene from Earth’s past, lava flows from a fissure in Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull ...