Ancient enzymes show life’s nitrogen signal stayed unchanged for billions of years, helping scientists read early Earth.

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates with teeth adapted for eating plants.

August Ponthier's Everywhere Isn't Texas is as much a fully realized introduction as a complete revival. Its an existential ...

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe." ...

Scientists have long known that Earth's core is mostly made of iron, but the density is not high enough for it to be pure ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

Earth’s habitability may trace back to a precise chemical balance during its formation, one that kept life-critical elements from disappearing into the core or drifting into space.

Climb on board The Beagle and join Charles Darwin for adventures in Galápagos, meet an online vlogging family discovering the ...

Abstract: Remote sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc. While ...

James J. Robinson's debut feature 'First Light' explores the intersection of faith, colonialism and institutional corruption ...