Fossilized tracks from an early reptile are now the oldest known reptilian tracks, meaning the tetrapod ancestor most likely ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Life on Earth probably began in warm, underwater 'chemical gardens', rich in hydrogen and iron. Researchers from Germany have ...

What if billions of years ago, the Red Planet had rain, snow, and even rivers that carved out landscapes much like those we ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...