For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory ...
A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed ...
Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...
Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs ...
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.
Radioactive spike found in Pacific seabed samples. It could be from space radiation or changes in ocean currents 10 million ...
Mars, our neighboring red planet, possesses some of the most dazzling and extreme geological features within our solar system ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...
Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...