Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Led by Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, the study was published Tuesday in the journal Earth ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Such changes would make it difficult for life as we know it to survive on Earth. The increased heat and radiation would ...

One of humanity's most incessant searches in recent times is for evidence of extraterrestrial life, or, in other words, the ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Billions of years ago, a rock crack exuding heat could have brought different biomolecules together to kickstart protein ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...