It’s easy to forget that time can stand still…at least for some remarkable creatures and plants. Imagine walking through an ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Earth's Northern Lights typically dance near the poles, but 41,000 years ago, they lit up skies over North Africa and ...

Recent research led by the University of Bristol has made waves by pushing back the timeline of Earth’s earliest life form by ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

The peer-reviewed report in the Astrophysical Journal Letters presents more questions than answers, acknowledges numerous ...