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

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

In turn, that will lead to potentially devastating impacts for all life on Earth. Professor Stroeve says: ‘Summer sea ice for sure will be gone well before 2100 but there will be several months ...

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

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

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the ...

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

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...