"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Primitive droplets stabilized by rain? This could be the key to the emergence of life. New studies are exploring this surprising hypothesis. The formation of modern cells, true ...

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

The significance of this discovery lies in its potential to bridge the gap between simple molecular structures and the ...

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are composed of solidified sand injectites, which formed in a similar manner to ...

How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with ...

If you thought the mass extinction caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact 65 million years ago was bad, think again. Travel ...