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 ...

America’s vast landscape encompasses some of Earth’s most breathtaking natural wonders, from towering mountain ranges and ...

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

Ancient stone tools found on Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia, raises huge questions about early hominins ability to sail ...

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

Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...

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

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 ...