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

For most of human history, the story of cosmic catastrophe has been told in craters: scars like Chicxulub that mark where ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity, confirming early descriptions of a solar eclipse and the Sun's corona.

A 2,000-year-old Chinese astronomical record describes the death of a “Man from Heaven” at the exact moment the New Testament ...