Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Since his debut in 1940's Action Comics #23, Luthor has evolved from a somewhat gimmicky Golden Age bad guy into one of the ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that hovered around 0°C. This stable, warmer temperature could have served as a ...

Wave-like landforms on Mars provide clues about the planet’s icy history, its potential to support life, and the behavior of ...