One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

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 ...

Over 1,000 species of plants and almost 400 animal species thrive within the park, including several not found anywhere else ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Historian Sunil Amrith’s 2025 British Academy Book Prize winner traces how conquest and extraction drove 500 years of ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

The key mystery of this discovery is bridgmanite, the most common mineral in the lower mantle. Previously thought to have ...