Earth's earliest life forms developed ways to survive the harmful effects of arsenic to cope with dramatic changes in their ...

Their Latin name means "night shining" and the clouds usually appear as streaks of blue or silver. The Met Office describes ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, this ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen. As a building block of proteins and DNA, nitrogen is essential to all living ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

"Until now, it was assumed that life on the early Earth, before the atmosphere was enriched with oxygen, was limited by a ...

This extraordinary event is known as a sprite — or “farfadet” in French — one of the rarest forms of Transient Luminous ...