New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal ... including the origin and evolution of life. We strive to understand the processes that give rise to its immense riches of life ...

Pot of pasta with meat sauce and a wooden spoon. Text reads "Just made about 15 servings of the worst pasta I have ever had in my entire life." 14.The unfathomably bright lights of all those new ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex life by bulldozing land minerals and then depositing them in the ocean, according to ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.