Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The infographics were everywhere in the run-up to Sunday's early-morning strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by American stealth bombers. They depicted America's bunker-busting bomb, known as the ...

2024 Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology We look back at three of the biggest biology stories of 2024: a reconstruction of the ancient ancestor of all modern life, the discovery of a neural circuit that ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth". Liquid water appears ...

05:29 pm What's the story Our planet, the blue marble of the universe, may have once been a different color altogether. According to some scientists, Earth was once dominated by purple and pink hues.

Earth, the pale blue dot, as seen by Voyager 1 on 14 February 1990, wasn't always blue. Studies suggest that the earliest colour exuded by the oceans was purple, and even pink. This was between 3.5 ...

The Earth as we know it today is the result of billions of years of geological activity, where continents have shifted, collided, and broken apart over time. But what did Earth look like in its early ...

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth".