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

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

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

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

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

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from ...

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Our moon is a particularly unusual example of moons when it comes to planetary bodies. Though many other planets in the solar system have moons, they are very different from our own. Most planets have ...