The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified TOI-1846 b, a super-Earth exoplanet located 154 light-years away.

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

The lush, tropical regions of Central and South America have long dazzled scientists with their plant diversity. These ...

Fossil remains unearthed in Colombia's Cerrejón coal mine reveal Titanoboa cerrejonensis, the largest snake ever discovered, ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Tensions between religion and science erupted in a hot and humid courtroom in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago this month.

5 fun facts about evolution The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion ...