Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

A massive meteorite that struck Earth early on in its history wreaked havoc on the planet, but the impact may have allowed ...

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

A team of scientists has found evidence of liquid water on Mars from 742 million years ago in a Martian meteorite known as ...

Synthetic cells could mimic the first sparks that led to our existence. Several Dutch institutions are working together to ...

Chromosphaera perkinsii, a billion-year-old species, may reveal multicellularity’s origins, predating the chicken and egg.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...