Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.

Elon Musk has never been shy about grand comparisons, but his latest claim pushes even his own scale of ambition. He now ...

Air bubbles trapped in ancient halite reveal a lost world, one more oxygen-rich and stable than anyone expected.

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

Over 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian period, all major animal phyla appeared rapidly in what is known as the ...

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.

A split-second stall at the start of genes may explain how complex animals evolved, according to the Cornell Chronicle. Researchers found that a brief “pause” in gene activity grew stronger and more ...

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...

Elon Musk outlines why SpaceX’s Starship represents a historic shift in spaceflight, driven by full reusability and long-term ...

Some experts think “xenobot” cells that reorganize themselves after death signify a form of consciousness—while others ...

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.