A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A new study suggests that this organism likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

It is located about 1,200 light-years (370 parsecs, or nearly 1.135Ñ1016 km) from Earth in the constellation of Lyra. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

The atmosphere not only nourishes life on Earth ... Photograph by Garcia Julien, Getty Images We also enjoy protection from Earth's magnetic field, generated by our planet's rotation and its ...

Martin models the evolution of life on Earth in a few minutes using the visual aid of a walk through timeline. From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the ...