Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question "How did we get here?" These moments also shed ...

Chemists at UCL and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have demonstrated how RNA (ribonucleic acid) might have ...

One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope have collected first-of-its-kind evidence for cloud formation on ...

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its ...

Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing satellite for the Japanese company iQPS early Saturday morning (May 17). An Electron rocket lifted off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand site on Saturday at 4:17 ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater ...

College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, P. R. China ‡ Analysis Center of Agrobiology and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, P. R.

A decades-old Soviet spacecraft is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere early Saturday, but it’s still a mystery as to where it will land if it survives its fiery descent. According to NASA, the ...