Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the “clocks” geologists use to date events can also be misread.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science made a surprise discovery during a project on the museum's parking lot: a 70 ...

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.

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

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

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

A new dinosaur fossil at t Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility’s parking lot in January, making the herbivorous animal’s remains ...

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 ...

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

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

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...