Earth’s earliest atmosphere may have done more than shield the planet from the Sun. New research suggests the sky itself helped supply early life with key sulfur-based molecules, long thought to ...

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient ...

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

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 ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

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

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 ...

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

Ancient Mars once teemed with flowing rivers, forming vast drainage systems. A new study has mapped these large basins, ...

The only reason such a detailed eclipse record survives is that ancient Chinese scholars believed unusual celestial phenomena ...