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A “natural history” approach to space exploration would take into account instead developments in the fields of physics, ...

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

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

The launch is set to occur no earlier than 12:42 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

The Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and ...

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

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

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A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

For generations, the question of whether life exists beyond Earth has captivated humanity. On Mars, faint traces in ancient ...