Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

In our absence, Earth would continue on. Our planet does not ‘need’ us. Life would last at least until our sun grows ... This ...

New research suggests complex life on ... things on Earth, of existence — ultimately, where we come from and where we are ...

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences now offers a doctorate in Earth System Science. The program is open for students with backgrounds in Geoscience, Environmental Science and Sustainability, Atmospheric ...

"Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective ozone shield, so there is 30 percent more harmful ultraviolet radiation at the surface ...

Science writer Ferris Jabr has now reanimated another idea that captured the era’s zeitgeist: the concept of a “living Earth”. In Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life Jabr makes the case that ...

When we discuss climate change today, we are mostly concerned with how such change will impact our environment and our lives. We look to the past to help understand climate cycles and how our ...

Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth ... science, with emphasis on human interactions with the environment. Sustainability is a unifying theme throughout the course. The knowledge and skills ...

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Students are also welcome to take our introductory geology course, Exploring the Earth ... the Natural Science Core requirement. They are designed to acquaint students with some exciting aspect of the ...