Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Asteroids are space rocks orbiting the sun that are considerably smaller than planets. Scientists believe they’re the ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

Earth's slow rotation over billions of years may have played a crucial role in oxygenating our atmosphere. Scientists think ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...