Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Earth has undergone incredible transformations over its 4.5 billion-year history,but what will it look like 1 billion years from now? By this time, the Sun will have grown significantly brighter, ...

The question of whether Earth is alone in harboring life has captivated humanity for millennia. In recent years, scientists ...

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...