Underwater volcanic eruptions may have delayed oxygen from building up in the atmosphere of primeval Earth for hundreds of millions of years, researchers say. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Editor Note: This article was written by journalism intern Geoff Koch. Analysis of 3.2-billion-year-old pebbles has yielded perhaps the oldest ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, Earth would have been hard to recognise. Instead of the forests, mountains and oceans that we know today, the surface of our planet was covered entirely by magma - ...