Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

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 ...

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

Sharp, solid stones form inside the human body more often than you might think. Watch and listen to episode two of The ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Meteorites are able to conserve substance that is aged which is older than any rock on Earth, and that is why a dark and heavy rock found by a nine-year-old on a beach in Wales has scientific weight ...

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer.