Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

A groundbreaking discovery from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveals the presence of methanol ...

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Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

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Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs.Our planet has gone through at least ...

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 ...

Science News: In about a billion years, Earth will lose its oxygen, making it uninhabitable for life forms that depend on oxygen. The planet will become methane-ric ...

If you were to look up from Earth some 466 million years ago, you might have seen a gleaming ring stretching across the sky, some scientists say.