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

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science gave members of the media a behind-the-scenes look at its new exhibit ...

Three competing theories for the origin of life's building blocks may fit together Earth began as a bare ball of rock, and within a billion years, it was covered in life READ MORE: Support grows for ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

According to Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany, there may be another facet to this mystery that hasn't yet been considered: Viking may indeed have ...

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 ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by how ancient fish like Tiktaalik evolved the structures needed to walk on land.

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

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Gamma radiation transforms methane into glycine and various other complex molecules. A research team reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie that gamma radiation can transform methane into a diverse ...

Anxiety is not inherently bad. It’s a feature, not a flaw, of the human mind. Its evolutionary purpose was to keep us alive, ...

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 ...