Large soda lakes - those without natural runoff - could have built and sustained extremely high concentrations of phosphorus.

Along with nitrogen and carbon, phosphorus is an essential element for life on Earth. It is a central component of molecules ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

At a plant on Belfast Harbour in Northern Ireland, Ionic Technologies, a unit of Australian stock exchange-listed Ionic Rare ...

Lane Bess, a tech investor and CEO, has now gone to space twice on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. Each time he said it reminded him ...

By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many businesses since it was built in 1892. Its creaky wooden floor is now covered with ...

Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...