Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

Look up on a clear night and you'll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don't see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.

When we look at the solid ground beneath our feet, it’s easy to assume Earth has always been this way. But our planet tells a story so extraordinary, so filled with dramatic transformations and ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

Space exploration is advancing rapidly, with launches occurring at unprecedented rates as companies strive to set up ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla shows how astronauts stay clean aboard the International Space Station. In a video shared ...

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

A declaration recognizing whales as legal rights-holders is influencing legislation in New Zealand and sparking an ...

Looking for molecular evidence of life on other worlds is tricky, but a test based on the reactivity of carbon compounds ...

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another." ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.