Study finds evidence of a possible star explosion 10 million years ago by discovering unusually high levels of cosmic rays in ...

Long before its days in the Bible, the Red Sea had a strange and turbulent history. Millions of years ago, this narrow strip ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Pollinators play a vital role in fertilizing flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our agriculture. But climate change can cause a mismatch between plants and their pollinators, ...

Animal life is a recent addition to Earth, relatively speaking. The planet formed about 4.5 billion years ago, with microbial life likely emerging between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. It was not ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

Insects in 112-million-year-old amber from Ecuador reveal a prehistoric rainforest and new clues about South America’s ...

Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research indicates this underwater migration occurred in response to a permanent ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change? This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

Early Eocene forest, Wyoming, U.S. Illustration by Julius Csotonyi, Smithsonian Institution Pollinators play a vital role in fertilising flowers, which grow into seeds and fruits and underpin our ...