The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A retired educator, he’s also an acclaimed artist, writer, poet, creator of soundscapes, armchair scientist and philosopher, ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...