A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth. It’s too ...

Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

We have entered the era of observational astrobiology,” Madhusudhan said. There are various efforts underway searching for signs of life in our ... times as massive as Earth and has a diameter ...

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may ...

On Earth, both molecules are only produced by microbial ... Madhusudhan believes his team’s finding is a “major landmark in ...

Marinoan global glaciation lasting 4 million years confirmed; stable ice defies current climate models and biological ...

In her new book, "The Trees Are Speaking," Lynda Mapes shares what forests are telling us about how to partner with them to ...

Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday after six months on China’s space station. The crew’s landing ...

One of the world’s greatest mysteries is how life on Earth began. Scientists have long sought to decipher where and how prebiotic molecules — those that preceded life — emerged. A new study suggests ...

How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient mammal from a small jawbone found in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.