By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Sundance: DMX, Hallmark movies, Kim Kardashian, and public diarrhea are just some of the countless things mixed into John ...

Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

If someone tried to put a price tag on Earth, what would that number even be based on? Land, oceans, ecosystems, raw ...

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

Researchers use synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern nitrogenases and rebuild their possible ancestors, in an effort to better understand the origins of life on Earth and beyond.

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...