Long before life thrived in Earth’s oceans, the planet’s magnetic field became disorganized. Deep within the ancient rocks of Morocco, scientists have recovered one of the clearest records of that ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

Geological evidence, including an Ordovician-era increase in earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, and crater formation, suggests a significant celestial event approximately 466 million years ago. A ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Purdue-led research into scattered rocks found by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows evidence the dry, dusty red planet could have once supported a humid, rain-heavy climate billions of years ago.