In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. The ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

October 13 - There is probably no one alive today who has done more to protect the oceans than Sylvia Earle. Revered among ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, suggesting missions must take stronger precautions to avoid contamination ...