The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery.For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet ...

The NGSS finally recognize Earth and space science as the rigorous, relevant, complex, quantitative science that it has become. The NGSS require a year of ESS in both middle and high school.

The collision could also have imbued our planet with the carbon, nitrogen and sulfur needed for life to form, scientists reported today (Jan. 23) in the journal Science Advances. You may like ...

Canadian geologist Elizabeth Turner may have found the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth in the Northwest Territories of Canada, according to a report published on July 28, 2021.

Hot springs, like those at Lassen Volcanic National Park’s Bumpass Hell in California, provide conditions that may have supported life as it began on Earth.

Another theory frequently publicized in popular science publications is that life on Earth began at relatively low-temperature hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean.

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet.