Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

A collaborative research team has made significant progress in studying the abiotic synthesis and stability of biomolecules ...

Here is what you’ll learn in this story: A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the researcher points to panspermia, a theory ...

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In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it. Sara Walker, a physicist at Arizona State University, says ...

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Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

Earth formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, and for several hundred million years the planet’s surface was almost certainly too hot and heavily bombarded by comets and asteroids to be hospitable to ...

Candace Owens has described science as a "pagan faith," after saying she had been reading literature supporting the theory that Earth is flat, rather than spherical. "And it dawned into an entire ...