Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Using a sophisticated new modeling approach, researchers have estimated carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters to 22 million U.S. lakes, rivers ... Laser Measurements to ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

The best science books of 2024 tell an extraordinary story about life. The chance that strange lifeforms evolve in strange ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Researchers at Harvard's Paleomagnetics Lab have made a compelling case that Mars' magnetic field, which could have supported life, lasted until 3.9 billion years ago—much later than previously ...

Earth could avoid the worrying doom of the so-called Kessler syndrome thanks to a brand new junk eating spacecraft. Currently ...

Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ISRO, NISAR will use advanced radar technology to monitor global surface ...