The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

So how did early Earth brew up enough of these building blocks for life to eventually blaze into existence? To try to figure that out, the researchers cut branching networks of interconnected ...

until a friend pointed out that his daily intake was more than half the lethal dose. “We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me.

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

A Yale study reveals that elevated marine iodine concentrations disrupted the stabilization of Earth’s ozone layer, delaying ...

For far too long, the decline in the biodiversity of our rivers and lakes has been out of sight and out of mind.

Harries said Earth Funeral customers who are doing end of life planning for themselves or ... When she looks of out her bedroom window, she can see all the way to the Farallon Islands.

The challenge is working out when the Moon truly is a factor and what is merely myth and legend.' The Moon affects life on Earth in three main ways According to Tom, there are three main ways in which ...

Because it’s so highly reactive, phosphorus is never found as a free element on Earth, but instead ... into planetary cores could rule out the potential for life on that planet’s surface ...