How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

By Vir Singh Life on the planet is rooted in the soil. The soil is not just the uppermost mantle of our planet’s land, it is the largest terrestrial ecosystem and a remarkable habitat ...

Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Using direct imaging, astronomers have found a brown dwarf that could help test technology for taking snapshots of Earthlike ...

Astronomers analyzing Sloan Digital Sky Survey data stumbled onto something they weren’t expecting: a structure stretching ...

BRITS are clueless about our solar system – with four in 10 unable to identify the biggest planet and a quarter uncertain ...

Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

From Russia to the US, discover the world’s biggest forests by area and more about their fascinating history The total forest area in the world is 4.1 billion hectares, or 32 per cent. For context, ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...