Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

A stunning new discovery suggests sponges, and animals, existed 100 million years earlier than we ever imagined.

How far could life go — in space and in time? Life Beyond – Chapter 1 explores the possibility of alien life in the context ...

An international team led by researchers from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

Slow orbital changes caused pulses in Earth's oxygen cycle 500 million years ago, which spurred explosions of animal life.

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The timeline of terrestrial evolution holds surprises. While scientists thought complex life required oxygen, a recent ...

A ferocious relative of the crocodile that hunted dinosaurs has been discovered, a forgotten superpredator from the ...

Giant tortoises are some of the long-lived species on the planet. Here’s what biologists now understand about one of nature’s ...