Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is visiting a home away from Earth that has seen continuous human presence ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Shampoo chemicals called polyquaterniums stick to tiny aquatic animals. They slow swimming and feeding, risking ecosystems ...

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s earliest complex organisms evolved a remarkable ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

How did complex life survive when Earth was frozen over? Scientists say tiny meltwater ponds on ancient ice may have been the ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...