All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor. And it's so much older than we thought. All life on Earth can be traced ...

Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The discovery marks a significant moment for a theory that was once dismissed as fringe science but is now gaining serious scientific traction. Panspermia is far from a modern invention. The concept ...

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

The Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum is the largest museum of its kind in the Middle East. For the first time in the world, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. We’ve pieced together a remarkably detailed timeline of ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar system, ...