The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

Anyone who has ever wondered what their neck of the woods looked like when even extinct species like dinosaurs roamed the Earth can get a peek with this map.

A study of ancient stromatolites reveals that ammonium reservoirs in early Earth's oceans, likely influenced by volcanic activity, may have supported microbial life before the Great Oxidation Event.

This problem of why the Earth was not heavily glaciated despite weak solar radiation has become known as the 'faint early Sun paradox'. For close to forty years, several solutions have been ...