The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

The Hidden Architecture of Earth's Interior Earth's structure resembles a giant onion with distinct layers, each playing a ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

Astronomers detect strong evidence of an atmosphere on ultra-hot TOI-561 b, a low-density rocky planet circling a star older ...

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...