Mars is starting to look less like a dead world and more like a planet that once had the right pockets for life to take hold.

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were ...

Scientists have long struggled to peer into Earth’s earliest biological history, limited by the fragmentary nature of fossils ...

Ancient canoes found in the bed of Lake Mendota in Madison are giving insight to indigenous ways of life for people living in ...

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered how Incas used Andean balance scales and ancient string knot ...

Researchers in Peru uncovered an ancient structure older than the Chankillo Solar Observatory, reshaping views on early ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.