Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.