A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

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

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

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 ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

A fascinating study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, has shed light on a mysterious chapter in our Solar System’s ...

Formed millions to billions of years ago, diamonds can shine light into the darkest and oldest parts of the Earth's mantle. The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and ...

D imaging reveals ancient phages virus with features dating back billions of years - and potential to fight today’s dangerous superbugs.