How will life on Earth end? Scientists explore extinction risks from asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts, and the Sun’s future transformation.

A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters (Pan Macmillan, 2021 / Picador, 2022: Amazon US / Amazon UK), by senior Nature science editor and novelist, Henry ...

The transition from water to land is one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of life on Earth. Over 360 million years ago, life began its slow but steady migration from the oceans onto dry ...

Exactly How Much Life Is on Earth? According to a new study, living cells outnumber stars in the universe, highlighting the deep, underrated link between geophysics and biology.

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-S… ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Few questions in the history of science eclipse the all-important investigation into how life first formed on Earth.

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are excited about it.