Mark Gerson’s new book, “God Was Right,” offers a continuous dance between ancient wisdom and modern science, and comes out ...

A new method allows scientists to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels and photosynthesis from fossilized tooth enamel. A ...

X-ray scans reveal rare chemical signatures in asteroid grains that hint at water, organics and the building blocks of life.

Asteroids floating through our solar system are debris left over from when our planetary neighborhood formed 4.6 billion ...

In the deep recesses of a Canadian mine, geochemist Barbara Sherwood Lollar stumbled upon the find of a lifetime: water ...

Blobs of rock are dripping off the underside of North America, likely caused by the remnants of a tectonic plate deep in ...

Two very different asteroid families may share the same ancient roots, linked by a rare mineral fingerprint and revealed ...

Imagine cruising down a Florida highway, enjoying the sunshine, when suddenly—BOOM!—an enormous Tyrannosaurus appears in your line of sight, jaws agape and ready for lunch. Don’t worry, your car ...

REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.