Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

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

A team of international researchers has uncovered fresh data on the world's earliest recorded solar eclipse using ancient ...

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers." A team of international researchers say they've uncovered new data on ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...