Massive impacts had a silver lining for life. Billions of years ago, long before life as we know it emerged, meteorites ...

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

New research reveals microbes surpass fossil fuels as a key source of methane emissions, reshaping climate strategies.

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

Footage from the Tiangong space station shows Shenzhou 18 crew members — commander Ye Guangfu and cremates Li Cong and Li ...

Recent scientific findings highlight two major discoveries: a massive meteorite 3.26 billion years ago enriched Earth's early ...

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet.

Microbes in the environment, not fossil fuels, have been driving the recent surge in methane emissions globally, according to ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

Researchers in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county, might also have found the answer to what happened to the first ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between ...