What drives us to send probes throughout the Solar System and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo has uncovered a ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu’s family when they found something startling. Stopped at a station for ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

Scientists know from extensive study here on Earth that life doesn't sprout from nothing—it requires a complex (and often ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...