Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on the world's first recorded solar eclipse using a ...

Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity, confirming early descriptions of a solar eclipse and the Sun's corona.

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...