The Perseverance rover found a rock in a Martian river valley that could show evidence of tiny, microbial life on Mars.

The Perseverance rover found a rock in a Martian river valley that could show evidence of tiny, microbial life on Mars.

Scientists have found compelling evidence that a meteorite storm hit the earth more than 12,000 years ago, and is likely to have been responsible for the extinction of a prehistoric people and ...

The evidence of humans changing the planet is solid as rock. A new catalogue of minerals counts 208 that result solely or primarily from human activity, says Robert Hazen of the Carnegie ...

The oldest evidence of life on Earth probably isn't found in some 3.7 billion-year-old rocks found in Greenland, despite what a group of scientists claimed a couple of years ago. That's according ...

Heavy equipment is moving into place to demolish the collapsed Hard Rock Hotel structure, where three workers were killed in October.

A hotbed of biology Are we closing in on life's cradle? What is claimed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth yet found backs the idea that the first microbes originated around hydrothermal ...

Demolition of the Hard Rock Hotel took a step forward Monday when a judge approved a plan to preserve evidence from the partially collapsed structure.

A new study shows that iron-bearing rocks that formed at the ocean floor 3.2 billion years ago carry unmistakable evidence of oxygen. The only logical source for that oxygen is the earliest known ...

Other rocks that formed during the same time period in other parts of the world lack this transitional evidence because ancient glaciers most likely scraped it off.

There's no doubt that Mars was once much warmer and wetter than it is today — a fairly comfortable home for life. Stardate looks at the evidence of life in a rock on the red planet.