Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith ...

In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people ...

He made his mark with Lords of the Deccan, and we sat down for a chat as he is set to launch a new book, Lords of Earth and Sea ... it and bringing it to life for new audiences, not just ...

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

An ambitious, multinational research project co-led by the University at Buffalo has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth, scientists report in a pair of new studies published ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what ...

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought. New findings suggest that conditions for life existed 1.5 billion years earlier than it was originally considered to have begun.

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...