The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Humans must urgently prepare for having babies in space as we enter a 'new era of exploration', scientists have warned.

Scientists call for stronger policy and local testing capabilities after detecting higher concentrations of the nuclear ...

Cats – unlike humans – are true carnivores: they must eat meat to survive because their bodies can't draw some essential nutrients from plants. By ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...

"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged ...

A 2022 award winner of the National Academies’ Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, J.D. Allen discusses his civic science media framework, his nuclear energy ...

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...