Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic information from living sponges, as well as chemical signals from ancient rocks, ...

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...