Some islands feel like they belong to our world; others seem to have slipped in from another dimension. Far from the usual ...

Researchers have found ancient communities of microbes that have been buried deep, for a hundred million years! This discovery might be the oldest living thing on Earth, and could even expand the ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were ...

Step back into the world of Ancient Rome, mapped out through Google Earth with unit placements that bring history to life.

When most people (myself included) think of New Mexico, they picture mountains, adobe buildings, lonesome highways, and ...

Ancient people may have jump-started wine fermentation not with fresh grapes, but by soaking naturally sun-dried raisins.

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

Ancient genetic data from central Argentina reveal a previously unknown human population that endured there for millennia.

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...