Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." The idea behind it is to launch a global program with the aim of ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...