Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

This is carbon. And of all chemical elements in the Universe, it’s one of the most plentiful. So what would happen if all of ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Somehow, 26 new species of bacteria have managed to survive in the harshest place on Earth -- a NASA cleanroom.

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.

New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that China is cutting off Japanese companies' access to critical rare earth metals and ...

New research reveals the Moon may have been silently collecting Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years. Scientists now ...