New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

The early years of our solar system were a period of unimaginable chaos and violence, a gravitational free-for-all where colliding planetary embryos competed for survival. In this tumultuous ...

Spend some time this fall in Nebraska’s state parks. While history is a major theme during October park events, other types of events are scheduled, too.

The sun’s activity is causing a stir in the cosmos, and it’s not just astronomers who are taking notice. Elon Musk’s Starlink ...

Wisconsin's historic Yerkes Observatory reveals a place where Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan, and many pioneering women of astronomy once explored the cosmos.

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...