New research reveals that nickel and urea once throttled Earth’s earliest oxygen producers, delaying the planet’s ...

Take a moment to breathe in the air around you and really appreciate it, because that oxygen-rich atmosphere you enjoy so ...

The planet’s long-standing natural “thermostat” is being outpaced by an feedback loop process involving algae, phosphorus, ...

Researchers uncovered that trace compounds like nickel and urea may have delayed Earth’s oxygenation for millions of years. Experiments mimicking early Earth revealed how their concentrations ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

JWST has detected rare silane gas in an ancient, oxygen-poor brown dwarf, revealing a key clue to why Jupiter and Saturn hide ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered MISO bacteria that use iron minerals to oxidize toxic sulfide, creating energy and producing sulfate. This biological process reshapes how ...

A $3.1 million project, funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program and a consortium of national science agencies, will drill deep into the Earth — and deep back in time — to ...

The model suggests that in a billion years, Earth will lose its oxygen, and with that, humans will cease to exist.

Common moss spores survived nine months bolted to the outside of the International Space Station, paving the way toward space ...

Explore the evolving rare earth hypothesis, highlighting new findings on habitability and the conditions for complex life on ...