All the continents were fused into one, teeming with life that was both beautiful ... there were other giant creatures ruling the Earth.00:00 What Was Earth Like Before the Dinosaurs?

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith of ...

There are aliens in the universe, according to one astronaut. But humanity has one massive stumbling block when it comes to ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

Maybe the first life on Earth was part of an 'RNA world ... This possibility would mean that viruses may have appeared before bacteria. But because viruses don’t leave fossils behind, there ...

Drabon is an early-Earth geologist intrigued by understanding what the planet was like before the first continents formed and how violent meteoritic impacts affected the evolution of life.

Yet how did life start here? Because earth is a living biosphere with weathering ... the idea that there was biological processing even before the formation of the earliest cells.

When it hit Earth, it blew a Maryland-sized ... resilient to this sort of shock than current life would be today. If you flew over our planet just before the S2 impact more than three billion ...