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 ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

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

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

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

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

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow ...

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

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

NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring a new Mars region called Krokodillen, which is thought to harbor some of the oldest ...