The Cambrian Explosion in which life on Earth underwent massive diversification was likely triggered by eccentricities in Earth’s orbit around our Sun. Or so say the authors of a new paper just ...

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Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the red planet and even contain evidence for past ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...

700 million years ago, the Earth was almost entirely frozen, an episode called "Snowball Earth". Its titanic glaciers played ...

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