The Monroe County Commission Chambers were packed to the brim Tuesday morning as citizens listened to hear the latest on a ...

Operation Highjump wasn’t just a “research mission”—it was the largest armed fleet ever sent to Antarctica, led by Admiral ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave discuss new findings about the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the secrets behind chameleons' eye movements and the energy use behind AI computing.

Billions of years ago, Earth underwent a fiery process that shaped its continents and set the stage for life. New research from Penn State and Columbia University has uncovered key insights into how ...

Astronomers have spotted something incredible — a hidden “second moon” orbiting Earth that’s been quietly following us through space. It’s not a real twin, but a strange companion known as a ...

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What can fossils teach scientists about the climate on ancient Earth? This is what a recent study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

In a world without plants or animals, microorganisms ruled Earth, and the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) marked a pivotal transformation. But how did life adapt when the once-toxic oxygen began to ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...