If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government ...

Fossils from China's Chengjiang beds reveal that early vertebrate ancestors, jawless fish called myllokunmingids, possessed ...

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At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among ...

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

At a zoo outside Tokyo, the monkey enclosure has become a must-see attraction thanks to an inseparable pair: Punch, a baby ...

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

If you’re a Florida resident who’s been zooming past Boca Raton on I-95 without stopping, it’s time to take the exit and ...