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

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

The study, led by researchers from Kyoto University and Meiji University, used XRISM’s advanced X-ray technology to analyze ...

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

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb doubles down on his alien tech theory for interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, urging governments to ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Every breath of air, every strand of DNA and every cell in my body carries a chemical story that began long before Earth ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...