For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into a giant, the inner Solar ...

When the Sun reaches the end of its life, in about five billion years, it will transform into a giant star, hundreds of times ...

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look like ...

Over 40,000 seamounts—undersea mountains that don't breach the ocean's surface—are scattered across the ocean floor. Some ...

Jharkhand is widely known for its rich mineral reserves and natural resources, but scientists say the State may also hold a ...

Geochemical traces of past environments are preserved in the geological record. Although secondary processes often erase this information, fluid inclusions in hydrothermal minerals act as time ...

Our understanding of the coevolution of Earth’s surface environment and the biosphere is built on 50+ years of data collection and interpretation. Given the addition of data, and reinterpretations of ...

In his 1989 book Wonderful Life, the late Harvard scientist Stephen Jay Gould imagined rewinding life’s history to an early ...