Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

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

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

USA Rare Earth is a mining company focused on building a domestic supply chain for rare-earth magnets. The company's flagship ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

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

Researchers use synthetic biology to reverse-engineer modern nitrogenases and rebuild their possible ancestors, in an effort to better understand the origins of life on Earth and beyond.

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

The curious minds at What If discover what Earth was like 2 billion years ago, exploring early life, atmosphere, and ...

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For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.