Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.

Salt crystals formed when a saline lake dried up 1.4 billion years ago trapped air inside, providing a sample of the ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Researchers from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Curtin University in ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

The solar maximum may be over, but the sun has still been busy with activity. A powerful solar eruption is expected to hit Earth soon, according to a forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

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