An iceberg break-off in Antarctica led to the unexpected discovery of a thriving marine ecosystem beneath the George VI Ice ...

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from inorganic materials.

The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among the first to engage in oxygenic photosynthesis.

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

In this week's installment of Artistic Perspectives, we come back to the second of four rotating categories: Nature. Join us ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

The health of waterways in the Conemaugh River basin could be compromised due to recent Department of Government Efficiency ...

A spacecraft has successfully closed in on a massive chunk of metal zipping around Earth, capturing images of it—a big leap ...