How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction Sep. 12, 2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth ...

NASA has issued an alert for 14 September as three asteroids are set to fly past Earth. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

The research published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters examined 21 ... the development and distribution of life. “The idea that a ring system could have influenced global ...

The Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EEAS) covers the interdisciplinary study of the earth and its atmosphere. Our students and faculty are passionate about understanding ...

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Every living organism uses tiny quantities of metals to carry out biological functions, including breathing, transcribing DNA, turning food into energy, or any number of essential life processes.

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

Until recently, many discounted the idea that life could have existed on Earth before 3.8 billion years ago because it was thought that heavy pummelling from asteroids would have made this impossible.

we’ll meet special guest Dr. Michael Wong, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at Carnegie Science’s Earth & Planets Laboratory. He studies planetary atmospheres, habitability, biosignatures, ...