A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

Ancient duplicated genes are giving scientists their first real clues about what life was like before all life on Earth shared a common ancestor.

Scientists analyzing ancient DNA from a 12,000-year-old double burial in southern Italy uncovered genetic evidence of a rare inherited growth disorder in two closely related prehistoric individuals. A ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

How and where does life originate in the universe? How can physical phenomena be measured with the highest precision? How is ...

On a high plateau in northwestern Argentina, a cluster of turquoise lagoons has quietly rewritten what scientists thought they knew about the earliest stirrings of life. Hidden in one of the driest ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spent two years observing the asteroid Bennu before it collected a ...

Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely over the top. Speaking to influencer Katie Miller — wife of Donald Trump’s ...