Life thrived on Earth far earlier than previously believed, flourishing under the harsh reign of the Hadean eon. LUCA—the ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

The special properties of rare earth magnetic materials are due to the electrons in the 4f shell. Until now, the magnetic ...

Space storms could soon be forecast with greater accuracy than ever before thanks to a big leap forward in our understanding ...

Material from the moon’s far side collected by China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft could solve a long-standing lunar mystery ...

Scientists consider Last Chance Lake to be an analog for lakes that may have existed on Earth 4 billion years ago and ...

"This very arid soil houses a treasure," ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a ...

But according to the scientists, if high emission scenarios continue, the slow bulging at the Earth’s equator could even ...

In 2031 the International Space Station will be shuttered, and a big, souped-up SpaceX space capsule has been chosen to ...

Maintaining a space station around a planetary body other than Earth won't be an easy feat. While the ISS orbits just 250 ...

As ice sheet and glacier melting accelerates, rising sea levels redistribute mass from the poles to the equator, increasing ...

Zack Emmerson explains how Native Americans in Northern California used fire ...