A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

A group of scientists has found an astonishing diversity of microorganisms in tiny pools of melted ice in Antarctica, suggesting that life could have ridden out Snowball Earth in similar ponds ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth".

In 2018, Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at MIT and head of the Summons Lab in MIT’s Department of Earth, led a team to study meltwater ponds on Antarctica’s McMurdo Ice Shelf.

As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, Science News explores the vast range of shark sizes, from megaladon to the dwarf lanternshark.

Discovery of 230 Giant Viruses Reveals New Insights Into Ocean Life and Health Study reveals new insights into giant viruses and their role in marine ecosystems.

The prevalence and diversity of diatoms have made them highly successful, suggesting the evolutionary history of diatoms is worth understanding as an important piece of the larger puzzle of life on ...

Nitrogen was not a limiting factor for early life on Earth, as microbes stabilized nitrogen fixation and hydrothermal vents supplied ammonium, which may also support life on other planets. A new ...

However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history. That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying.

Between a rock and a green place: Michelle Gehringer studies fossilized life on early Earth to learn more about the evolution of (oxygenic) photosynthesis—the process that makes the oxygen we ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface of the earth, far from the life-giving energy of the sun.