Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...

Micrometeorites are thought to shower down on planets throughout the universe, so the discovery that they help protocells ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia is now revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The year’s biggest computer science ...

World’s oldest fungi, found in fossils, may rewrite Earth’s early history. Fungal fossils, hundreds of millions of years older than previously known, shed light on the evolution of fungi ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Planet Earth is a 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit.Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and ...