The timing of the origin of life on Earth is mysterious. However, by looking deeply into Earth’s ancient rocks and deeply ...

Roughly 140 million to 100 million years ago, the piece of land that is modern day Australia was located much further south ...

Ancient North American droughts were driven by Earth’s orbital shifts, study from the University of Helsinki finds.

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

Known as the Brightest of All Time (BOAT), it was the brightest GRB seen about ... Understanding the 2.4-billion-year journey of the ancient light It just hit the Earth, but it started so long ago.

In a recent study, researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia unearthed compelling ...

Learn about the activation and deactivation of genes over long distances of DNA - an ability that emerged in comb jellies and ...

It’s been decades since the Russians bothered with Venus, but this week, an artifact from that long-ago ... time. (Local time on another world is calculated the same way it is on Earth—by ...

Lauren Bacchus is one of many people in Asheville who are strangely enamored with the city’s sinkholes.

Fighting has raged in Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion more than three years ago. Russian forces have ... to gain a few metres at a time - with at least 45,000 Russian troops ...