A strange spider-like formation on one of Jupiter's moons may be the smoking gun in the search for extraterrestrial life in ...

Over the last 12 months our scientists have been busy cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth.

Scientists discover a giant hidden structure beneath Bermuda, revealing clues about the island’s unusual geology.

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Mars has long been a planet of mystery, especially when it comes to the question of water. For years, scientists have debated ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet outside our ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive, hidden rock layer beneath Bermuda, over 12 miles thick, defying typical oceanic island ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them. Their fossils still stand, not far from you.

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

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 ...