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

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

Scientists are cataloging and analyzing the first samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover while the agency weighs its ...

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

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

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 ...

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

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

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