Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Instruments like the those currently on the Red Planet were used to study samples collected from an 'Mars-like' area in Chile ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some ...

For anyone curious about what it's like to stand on another planet, Earth offers a few convincing previews. Mars may be 140 ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Speaking on a podcast, Williams said prolonged exposure to microgravity can have lasting effects on the body, some of which ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

All the greatest fantasy films employ immersive visuals, but the best of the lot are the films that deliver a sumptuous ...