Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

"It's been such a puzzle that there was liquid water on Mars, because Mars is further from the sun, and also, the sun was ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

What does an ancient lava tube in the Canary Islands have in common with space exploration? For our robotics teams, it turns ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

A 66-million-year-old fossilized vomit discovery in Denmark offers a rare glimpse into the prehistoric Cretaceous food chain.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...