Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

According to the Global Peace Index, Iceland is consistently ranked as the most peaceful nation in the world, thanks to its ...

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

Over millions of years, dramatic shifts in global temperatures transformed ecosystems and forced early humans to adapt or die ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

A specially trained algorithm could aid the search for biological activity both on the early Earth and on other worlds.