Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Scientists have found fresh evidence that Earth’s core may be slowly leaking gold and other precious metals into the mantle.

Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has confirmed macromolecular carbon in two ancient mudstones in Jezero Crater, the widest organic ...

Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO 2 from the ...

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover's ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a mineral never before found on the Red Planet.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A clue preserved in ancient rocks suggests that mountains rising from the ocean floor may have helped create ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...