Two of the most intriguing questions in science are: How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe ...

For a film with so many memorable scenes, Larisa Shepitko’s “The Ascent” (1977) feels shamefully neglected. While Soviet war ...

wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s ...

Defense systems found in all complex life on Earth came from "Asgard." The ancestor of plants, animals and fungi evolved around 2 billion years ago, likely from a group of complex microbes called ...

Here is the biggest thing happening on our planet as we head into the autumn of 2024: The Earth is continuing to ... It is starting to make life on this planet very difficult, and in some places ...

Space opera — stories about life in space and on other planets ... and make it independent of Earth. The Martian colonists trap an iridium-rich planetoid in Mars’ orbit instead of sending ...

A new assessment of Earth’s life-support systems shows that six out of nine of these crucial processes have crossed their “planetary boundary.” These boundaries are not tipping points—it ...

"This is an important piece of the evolution of religious life," she said. Worcelo and other members of the Sisters of the Earth Community will meet in the next few months with Bishop John Joseph ...

Yes, you read that right. According to JUICE, the earth does indeed have the ingredients for life. ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug ...

NASA scientists have discovered an electric field encompassing Earth’s atmosphere that is as “fundamental” as gravity — and could even give clues about possible life on other planets.

“The end-Permian is the biggest crisis in Earth’s history from life’s standpoint, but I don’t think we’ll ever get anywhere near those conditions again, because (Earth back ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...