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

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

However, light that leaves our star also contains UVC radiation, which has a shorter wavelength than UVA or UVB light and ...

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

Scientists say they may have finally found evidence of life's hidden rule which helps govern how species spread across the ...

A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while ...

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

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

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

The bold question-askers at What If explain why a flat Earth couldn’t support an atmosphere or sustain life as we know it.

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