Earth got stuck. After inventing single-celled organisms and teaching them biochemical tricks such as the energy-creating ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was home to extreme environments, including intense UV radiation, frequent volcanic eruptions, and very high concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Yet, under ...

Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one continental plate overlaps another. When it does, some of it melts, eventually ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water," said Nadja Drabon, an early Earth ...

known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of life on Earth. New presidential election polls ...

Amphibian fossils, particularly those capturing larval stages, are exceptionally rare due to tadpoles’ soft, delicate bodies, ...

Renowned American-born, Hungarian geologist on why Mars likely never developed any sort of life. And how life may have started here on earth.

The chemical origin of life refers to the conditions that might have existed and therefore promoted the first replicating life forms. It considers the physical and chemical reactions that could ...

Aayush A., age 16, India How life on Earth started has puzzled scientists for a long time. And it still does. Fossils provide very important evidence about the evolution of plants and animals.

Seven BE-4 rocket engines have been installed on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn booster. (Blue Origin Photo) Is Boeing thinking about unloading some of its space projects? Is Jeff Bezos’ Blue ...