Earth is flying through the radioactive ashes of an ancient exploded star, and Antarctic ice preserved the evidence.

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

With over 165 hands-on exhibits spread across nine floors, this is less like visiting a museum and more like stepping into a ...

Explore the history of life on Earth, from 3.5-billion-year-old fossils to the vast diversity of species on our planet today.

SNOLAB experiment, located deep in a nickel mine, aims to detect signs of dark matter particles passing through the Earth.

New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and evolve. Tiny lipid bubbles behaved very differently depending on their membrane ...

Happy Earth Day! This year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet,” emphasizing that even small, daily actions can have a large impact on protecting the environment. The first Earth Day was held in 1970, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic ...

From immune system shifts to organ-on-a-chip experiments, Artemis 2 is as much a human health mission as it is a test flight around the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Lithopanspermia is the idea that that alien life might be able to migrate between worlds sealed inside rocks knocked loose by asteroids or comets. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life. By Robin George Andrews No ...

On December 13, a rocket rose from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China carrying an unusual passenger: a butterfly inside a chrysalis, mid-transformation. Weeks later, images ...