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

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

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover has been busy gathering bits of Mars — rock cores the size of chalk sticks, clusters of broken fragments no bigger than pencil erasers, and even grains of dust fine enough to ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

NASA has worked on its own first contact protocols, conducting a 2024 workshop event about how best to communicate the ...

Microbial life in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life's exploitation of oxygen, ...

The team from India's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) has created the first geological map of Chandrayaan-3 landing site, ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

The samples were taken from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by the NASA mission OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. attempt to retrieve ...