Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

NASA’s supercomputer has issued a dire warning that Earth could soon become lifeless, sparking global concern about the ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory that life or the ingredients for life came ...

Scientists found that colorful pigments in Earth’s cloud microbes may help telescopes identify signs of life on distant ...

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The Earth's magnetic field has been getting weaker over the past few centuries. This weakening can be seen in data gathered ...

Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you might expect that the ...

The idea of panspermia is that life originated on another planet, which was then impacted to eject material into space, which then migrated to planet Earth, seeding our world with the earliest life ...

NVIDIA GPU space mission could revolutionize cloud services by enabling orbital data centers that make apps, games and AI tools faster and more efficient.