Hints of ancient microbes in Martian rocks and a revived theory about our cosmic ancestry are forcing scientists to rethink ...

China's Zhurong rover, part of the 2021 Tianwen-1 mission, has found the first clear signs of ancient beach deposits under ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s oldest rocks, dating back 3.7 billion years, ...