A new look at ancient rocks suggests that a self-sustaining nutrient cycle in ancient oceans helped keep Earth's atmosphere rich in oxygen for millions of years.

Erupting in 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius serves as a significant case study for scientists delving into Earth’s geological history.

A droplet of salty water full of DNA strands added, multiplied and divided numbers by settling into the right answer as it ...

Laboratory experiments show that a methane-producing archaeon from Earth can grow under simulated Enceladus seafloor ...

Paul Giamatti, Evan Peters, Tatiana Maslany and Jason Clarke also star in Tom McCarthy’s account of a 1980 conference at ...

The difficult "homework" left behind by NewtonWe hear about Isaac Newton's "Law of Universal Gravitation" in school science ...

Chemical clues in Earth and Mars suggest their different formation histories may explain why the neighbouring planets evolved ...

Protoplanets and planetesimals are both planetary building blocks, but they differ in size. Planetesimals are solid, ...

Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity's great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our ...

Students in geographically remote and economically disadvantaged provinces in the Philippines often face barriers to ...

"In contrast, roughly three-quarters of Mars's mass appears to come from planetesimals, with the remaining quarter ...

A silicone chip grows human cell clumps under flowing fluid, then splits open to release them intact, an animal testing ...