The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

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The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process ...

Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered Earth’s climate.