Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...

A nimal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth's inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of ...