A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a ...
Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...
Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...
Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...
According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...
MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...
Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.
For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...
Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...