“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

T o the untrained eye, the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC), in northeastern South Africa, is kind of unassuming. It’s roughly the same size as West Virginia – or, for metric users, the Republic of ...

A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years.

What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

A strange metal rich asteroid called Psyche may be the exposed core of an ancient failed planet, and NASA’s mission could finally reveal what lies beneath its battered surface.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured giant auroras blazing across Uranus, revealing powerful magnetic storms and rewriting what we know about the distant ice giant.

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

Scientists discover QT45, a self-replicating RNA molecule, offering insights into the origins of life on Earth.

Learn how octopuses use microbial signals to detect rotten food and unviable eggs.