At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

Even now, after many years of research, you won’t find much information in books about ancient fire. Indeed, I first started ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Australian and New Zealand scientists have unearthed the remains of ancient wildlife in a cave near Waitomo on Aotearoa's ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...