About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

(Image: People ride a scooter past the rubble of damaged Buddhist pagoda in Mandalay on April 3, 2025. Credit: Sai Aung MAIN / AFP via Getty Images) ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Human ...

A group of scientists and NASA got together and with the help of supercomputers came up with a date for total and complete ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

In a study published in Systematic Biology, researchers from Imperial College London, UCL, Dalhousie University and the ...

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

Barry Wilmore said that astronauts, NASA and Boeing need to spend time analyzing the Starliner mission to improve future ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...

From satellite-powered connectivity to climate monitoring and disaster management, space technology is helping solve ...