A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

Igneous AI, LLC, a startup co-founded by two geology PhDs from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has ...

Thus far, our search for extraterrestrial life points toward Clarke’s former point, suggesting that our little blue dot is ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...

Some science facts sound impossible, but they’re real. These examples show how strange reality can get once you look closer.

Recent estimates have come to the consensus that our planet hosts roughly six million species. But new research reveals that ...

From river giants to land-dwelling beasts, these are the biggest creatures walking, swimming and flying across our planet ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Living systems rely on molecules fitting together precisely. A key concept is chirality – many biological building blocks come in mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. Life on Earth mostly ...