Researchers described initial steps toward achieving chemistries that encode information in a variety of conditions that might mimic the environment of prehistoric Earth

Earth's water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun

The new findings defy previous beliefs that tectonic plates were developed over the course of billions of years

There may be more habitable planets in the universe than we previously thought, according to Penn State geoscientists

Rice University researcher helped find oxygen evidence of atmospheric production

Humans are the most populous large mammal on Earth today, and probably in all of geological history

Efforts by Berkeley Lab scientists are key in new study analyzing data from Antarctic experiment

Old star offers sneak preview of the future

“Our most important finding is that the Boron isotope ratios are highly variable, indicating that the source of carbon within the mantle changed with geological time on Earth” 

Analysis of diamonds provides a look inside Earth's mantle