"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...

Lindsay Nikole takes us on a bold, hilarious, and chaotic journey through the history of our planet, packed with bizarre ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the planet.

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Cross-section of an egg-shaped iron oxide stone: It holds information about the amount of organic carbon in the sea millions of years ago, much like a time capsule. Credit: Nir Galili /ETH Zurich ...

The finding suggests phosphine—a potential biosignature—shouldn’t be viewed as evidence of alien life until natural, non-biological sources are ruled out. reading time 5 minutes For scientists, the ...

The history of space exploration is filled with projects that never came to be in the real world, or projects that, despite being brought very close to production, never actually got to power humanity ...

Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, it looks almost like a colony on another planet. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

Scientists backed by NASA warn that Earth’s breathable air is vanishing—slowly but irreversibly. A silent countdown is underway that could erase complex life as we know it. The implications are ...