One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A new study has revealed that the forces creating mountain ranges can also drive species diversity and the evolution of life.

Human activity is reshaping life on Earth in profound and alarming ways ... most consistent finding is a decline in local species diversity. Impacted sites, on average, support nearly 20% fewer ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The finding felt to me a poignant, if not deliberately political, statement coming directly from mother Earth about how beautifully ... of living systems. To fight diversity is to fight the very ...

Even if no life is found on other planets, smart survey design and careful statistics can still reveal how rare, or common, ...