In mid-2024, scientists reported a surprising discovery: oxygen being produced on the deep seabed in complete darkness, ...

A spacecraft slowly descends to the surface of Mars. Once arid and lifeless, the Red Planet is now lush and green. As a city comes into view, passengers see people strolling along busy streets, ...

Just over a year ago, NASA made a remarkable announcement. The Perseverance rover had found potential signs of ancient life ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

Earth will eventually run out of oxygen. While this won't happen in our lifetime, the fate of our planet is well known. But ...

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to: It breathes oxygen and ...

How Earth's atmosphere transformed from oxygen-poor to oxygen-rich over a span of about two billion years has been revealed by an international team of researchers. Dr. Matthew Dodd, from The ...

JACKSONVILLE, FLA – Every second breath you take comes from the ocean. The oxygen you inhale is largely the work of phytoplankton—tiny plant-like organisms floating at the surface of the sea. Through ...

For billions of years, the atmosphere on Earth was nothing like it is now—no oxygen, no air to breathe, just a barren wasteland shrouded in mystery. And then something shifted. Scientists have long ...