Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

New research uncovers how evolution and improved living conditions are accelerating men's growth more than women's.

A provocative new book delves into the way humans – and elephants – evolved to manage risk. We might do better to think more like elephants ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

and the geologist who ten years ago was embarrassed by the shortness of the time allowed to him for the evolution of the earth's crust is now still more embarrassed by the superabundance with ...

"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't understand." ...

Scientists used AI to design a fluorescent protein unlike any seen before. The AI model, ESM3, simulates evolution on a ...