In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Microbes display incredible metabolic diversity. Since the dawn of life on Earth, around 4 billion years ago, microorganisms have evolved ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

From the water that covers most of it to the moon that orbits it, here are some bizarre things about our home planet that science still doesn't completely understand.

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Before the dinosaurs dominated the Earth, our planet was vastly different. The age before these towering giants roamed the land was filled with strange and unfamiliar creatures, landscapes, and ...

By tracing the ratio of nitrogen-15 to nitrogen-14 over time, scientists can piece together how oxygen levels in Earth’s oceans and atmosphere changed. One of the study’s most striking insights, ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Taking the rutile TiO2(110) surface as a prototype, we elucidate the pivotal role of surface holes in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) through density functional theory simulations. We demonstrate ...

The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy ...