The mysteries of Earth’s deep oceans are increasingly captivating scientists and policymakers alike, blending into the ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth.Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.

Sure, life as we know it will end, but Earth will go on. But, a billion years is a long time, and if humanity is still around, we’ll need to seek refuge elsewhere.

The history of life on Earth offers clues to aid the search for complex life elsewhere in the cosmos. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. Space. Search. Search Space. Sign in.

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Antarctica is home to some of the most alien places on Earth. No trees interrupt the horizon. The landscape, all sharp edges, seems to go on forever until it ...

How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-S… ...

Life on Earth won’t suddenly end—it will fizzle out with a slow, irreversible decline. But despite the long time span, researchers are urging the importance of preparation and adaptation for ...

Tohoku University. (2024, October 31). How life began on earth: modeling Earth's ancient atmosphere. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 10 ...

In 1973, Julia Child made “primordial soup” for a display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The chef said she was demonstrating “what some scientists think could have been ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time. That's according to new evidence found in a Martian meteorite that indicates the key ingredient for life, water, appeared on Mars around 4 ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed ...