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 ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a long-standing astronomy puzzle.

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The research ...

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 ...

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

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

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 ...