The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company announced a plan to deploy 5,408 satellites, jumping into a market dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

The curious minds at What If imagine the worst asteroids from history hitting Earth tomorrow, revealing catastrophic impacts and extinction-level events.

The two climbers who were found dead on the mountain this Tuesday were far from the first to die at Mount Rainier National ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch a rocket from West Texas bearing six lucky passengers who will become the latest to ride ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...