A 2020 astronaut photo shows the oasis town of Jubbah lurking within a paleolake in the wind shadow of Saudi Arabia's "two ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to as “Snowball Earth.” Oceans cooled but managed to retain some heat to avoid ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a ...

The world’s oldest known cave art shows how early humans crossed oceans, offering rare insight into ancient migration routes.

In 7.5 billion years, the Sun will expand and engulf our planet, destroying all life as we know it. Of course, a mass ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday.However it came to a ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...