Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

Before Pangea ever existed, Earth already pulled off a massive experiment called Nuna, and it quietly changed life forever.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Life on Earth began in a world of volcanic eruptions, violent storms, and a toxic atmosphere. Yet somehow, from this chaos, ...

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

The origin of the first living molecules on our planet has long been debated. However, recent experiments are revealing new ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

These episodes feature cartoons about marine life that teach children valuable lessons about sea life, conservation, and much ...