Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...