For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

Researchers reveal 2,700-year-old records from ancient China that offer new insights into Earth's rotation and solar activity, confirming early descriptions of a solar eclipse and the Sun's corona.

Ancient mudras offer a blueprint for smoother robot hand movement and could inspire new approaches to motor training and ...

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MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system. Reading time 3 minutes Around 100 million years after the formation of the solar ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology sent to seed life on Earth, ...