Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

Scientists have identified nine planetary boundaries that help regulate a livable planet. Human activities have pushed six of ...

Imagine a world where the sun never shines, where temperatures plummet and crushing pressures would flatten most creatures in ...

Scientists have long credited cyanobacteria for sparking the Great Oxidation Event It flooded Earth’s atmosphere with oxygen and paved the way for complex life High levels of iron in the oceans ...

Nearly three fourths of Earth ... "red tides" came to dominate the surface oceans. These red algae are common in areas with intense concentration of fertiliser such as nitrogen. In the modern oceans, ...

The team found that the subsurface ocean on Titan – around 300 miles deep – could support "life-forms that consume organic material". The planet is described as being "Earth-like on the ...

The reason Earth ... red algae are common in areas with intense concentration of fertiliser such as nitrogen. In the modern oceans, this tends to happen in coastline close to sewers. As our sun ...

Shares of Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, fell in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company acknowledged it is being investigated by the antitrust division of the U.S ...

New research suggests that early oceans were green, not blue, giving our planet a green hue overall. Here’s what made early Earth’s oceans green, and how it could happen again. Pope Francis ...

Their simulations suggest Titan’s subsurface ocean, about 300 miles deep, could theoretically support microbial life. However, due to limited nutrient flow from the surface, only a tiny amount of ...