How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

Researchers found that a tidally locked planet like our nearest neighbor Proxima b could produce significant lightning storms ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars just took an amazing selfie - but some of its most exciting work is just beginning.

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are ...

Life on Earth probably began in warm, underwater 'chemical gardens', rich in hydrogen and iron. Researchers from Germany have ...

"The Krokodillen rocks formed before Jezero Crater was created, during Mars' earliest geologic period, the Noachian, and are ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

The footprints of a reptile-like creature appear to have been laid down around 356 million years ago, pushing back the ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...