So here’s the situation: you live in Virginia, which gives you access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions ...

The soda straws are another geological oddity that sounds more like a menu item than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes ...

The climate record holds some of its best warnings in stone, soil, and leaves. In a new study, scientists from the University of Utah and the Colorado School of Mines looked back to one of Earth’s ...

When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife in 2022 and ...

At a zoo outside Tokyo, the monkey enclosure has become a must-see attraction thanks to an inseparable pair: Punch, a baby ...

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is ordering federal agencies to begin “identifying and releasing” government ...

At a remote and barren Sahara desert site in Niger, scientists have unearthed fossils of a new species of Spinosaurus, among ...

Life on Earth may not have started here at all. A scientist says alien intervention is unlikely but still possible, reshaping the debate on our true origins.

While idea may violate Occam’s razor, “it remains a speculative but logically open alternative,” says biologist Robert Endres.

Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

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