Suppose humanity was faced with an extinction-level event. Not just high odds, but certain-sure. A nearby supernova will ...
After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.
Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.
The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.
Astrobiologist Joshua Sebree of the University of Northern Iowa suggests that South Dakota's Wind Cave exhibits chemical ...
The primary mirror array will be 128 feet (39 meters) across, allowing it to gather more light and greater detail than any ...
Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid that will be zooming past the Earth today at a speed of nearly 28,028 miles per hour. The space rock, known as "2025 FO6," is estimated to be about 35 feet across ...
The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...
A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular ...
The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed ...