Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

On Feb. 22, 2020, "Mad" Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket to the Mojave Desert and launched himself into the sky. His goal?

Scientists can usually spot coronal mass ejections before they mess with GPS and cause power outages—but this one snuck past ...

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

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...

Deep beneath Yellowstone’s famous geysers, a hidden world of microbes and magma is responding to earthquakes in ways ...

People come to believe in flat Earth, spirits and microchipped vaccines for the same reasons they come to believe in anything ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new ...

Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...