A new study may have figured out how life on Earth actually began, and it all has to do with ancient hot springs.
Once, the Earth was nothing but a world of mud. Indeed, about 650 million years ago, the planet shifted from a frozen state ...
Learn about the rapid melting of the last Ice Age and how it led to the era of the 'plumeworld ocean' on Earth.
An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating role for iron sulfides in the creation of life on early Earth ...
Water evaporates from ground level and rises into the atmosphere, spreading across the world as vapour before cooling, condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...