A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to ...

Science News: A new NASA and Toho University study, utilizing supercomputers, projects Earth's habitability timeline, revealing the eventual demise of life due to t ...

A team of researchers say their latest attempts to understand how molecules chemically reacted to form the basic building blocks of life on Earth are promising. There has long been debate about the ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Plate tectonics also may have enabled life to recover from devastating mass extinctions. For instance, at the end of the Permian period, a mass extinction driven by carbon-dioxide-spewing volcanic ...

This suggests that environmental factors played a key role in shaping the molecular complexity needed for life to emerge. “This research offers a new perspective on how molecular evolution might have ...