Learn about the process that started life on Earth, linking amino acids with RNA to create proteins that are found in all ...

New research shows Earth formed dry and lifeless—until a chance cosmic collision delivered the ingredients needed for life.

Learn how Mars' mantle differs from Earth's and why it seismic signatures of marsquakes act like a time capsule into its past ...

It's just one of many depositories of ‘secret fresh water’ known to exist in shallow salt waters around the world ...

Ancient Babylonian world map from a clay tablet, nearly 3,000 years old, reveals a version of the Noah's Ark story and ...

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ...

Lobe-finned fishes once led the way in jaw innovation, reshaping evolution long before dinosaurs and life on land emerged.

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, possesses a thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere that bears striking similarities to that of early Earth. Scientists are fascinated by Titan’s atmospheric composition ...

There is an ancient Greek scientist who discovered the existence of polar day and polar night before people even knew the ...

What do the rumblings of Iceland's volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland's western ...

Rare rocks buried deep beneath central Australia have revealed the origins of one of the world's most promising new deposits ...