This video looks at leading scientific ideas about the origins of life, from early chemistry on ancient Earth to ongoing ...

Americans living at the start of the 20th century possessed far greater self-reliance than those born at the start of the 21st century.

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

Not only will Artemis II be the first mission to reach the moon in more than half a century, it will also represent a significant demographic and cultural shift. Koch will be the first woman to go to ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The maps of the 1940s and 1950s were about a fresh (American) perspective to create a new world order. They instilled Trump’s ...

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At the moon's north and south poles, permanently shadowed craters remain so cold that water ice and other frozen compounds can persist for billions of years. Scientists think these ancient deposits ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

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

Unlike MP, whose mining output is mostly light rare-earth elements, USA Rare Earth controls a deposit (the Round Top deposit ...