New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals that Earth’s life-friendly conditions may never have existed without a monumental cosmic accident. Researchers from the University of Bern ...

Oxford University Press; £9.99 James Lovelock, an English scientist, devoted the second half of his long life to exploring ...

For over half a billion years, Earth’s magnetic field has risen and fallen in sync with oxygen levels in the atmosphere, and scientists are finally uncovering why. A NASA-led study reveals a striking ...

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

Early Earth was a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life until a big protoplanet crash carried in the necessary ingredients, a new study suggests. That collision of the proto-Earth and a ...

Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no ...

In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion years ago, to a time when our planet was inhabited solely by single-celled life.

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