When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

When the GOE happened, though, life on Earth changed drastically ... Earth will persist—it will just do so without us. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over a decade, covering science, gaming ...

Now, a scientist has taken it upon himself to see just how lucky we are that Earth has survived for this long without life being snuffed out completely, and the data is incredibly interesting.

Without the Moon’s gravitational pull, ocean tides would be drastically reduced, leading to major disruptions in marine ecosystems and coastal life. Earth’s rotation axis, which the Moon helps ...

By removing the pull of gravity, space has accelerated breakthroughs once thought impossible, reshaping medicine, ...

Equally, Martins says, it’s certainly conceivable that in other solar systems, we might find Earth-like planets that could theoretically support life, but formed without the ingredients to do so.

It suggests that, about 100 million years after our solar system started to form, proto-Earth got smacked by Theia, a Mars-sized planet. This knocked enough debris into orbit to form the moon.

Fire only exists only on Earth because fire can’t exist without life. Earth isn’t the only watery planet in the known universe, but it is the only fiery planet. The sun is mostly hydrogen ...

Without the nitriles ... The simple recipe for such a complex-looking molecule could reimagine how life started on Earth. Historically, Powner said, scientists proposed that biological molecules ...

Without the protection of our magnetosphere ... And that magnetic collapse might have actually helped spark an explosion of life on Earth. A reduction in Earth’s magnetic strength during ...