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

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

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

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

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

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

So we're doing... some of the research is focused absolutely on impacting life on Earth, but it also has applications as we ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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 ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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