Cyanobacteria, as they still exist today, were the first organisms to carry out photosynthesis and release oxygen. Produced in primeval oceans about 2.5 billion years ago, this oxygen accumulated in ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're ...

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Strip every living thing from our planet, every bacterium, every blade of grass, every creature that has ever drawn breath ...

Explore how Earth would appear without life. Studies from Universe Today and Cornell University reveal atmospheric signals, surface conditions, and implications for exoplanet observations.

Carolin L. Dreher, Olaf A. Cirpka, Manuel Schad Kurt O. Konhauser, Andreas Kappler: Survival of cyanobacteria and mitigation of Fe (II) toxicity effects in a silica-rich Archean ocean. Nature ...

On February 19, 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster fell back toward Earth, its fiery descent slicing across Europe's night sky.

Remembering the day the Venera 3 impacted Venus It is 60 years since humanity first got up close and personal with another planet, with the impact of the Soviet Union's Venera 3.… An impact wasn't the ...

Around 2.3 billion years ago, the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) marked a major turning point in Earth’s history. The increase ...

Astronomers have uncovered a fascinating new exoplanet, TOI-5734 b, located roughly 106 light-years away from Earth. The ...

NASA reveals how a lunar eclipse appears from the Moon, where Earth blocks the Sun for hours. Watch how the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) powers down instruments to survive darkness and why this ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies? The Earth system is a vast ...