The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

The surface of our Earth is wriggling with life: it's the defining feature of our planet, which, far as we know, makes it ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...