The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly ...

The system calculated more than 3.7 million molecules it could make from six different metallic elements in the rocks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues have been studying the ocean floor and its ecosystems, ...

This schematic shows how lunar soil can work as a catalyst for extraterrestrial photosynthesis to make oxygen and fuels needed for long-term survival on the moon. Credit: Yingfang Yao Soil on the moon ...

It's long been thought that photosynthesis was basically the only way that oxygen is naturally generated on Earth (some bacteria can also produce oxygen by breaking down nitrates). But a new study has ...

In 1997, a fire broke out on the Mir space station, the predecessor of the International Space Station. The culprit was the ...

In the wellness world, there’s a lot of pseudoscience circulating around about the human gut microbiome, the swimming colonies of microbes that inhabit our bowels, especially when it comes to selling ...

Astronauts on the space station may seem distant, but they're only 248 miles from Earth: a little more than the drive from New York City to Washington DC. Everything they need can be delivered in ...

Soil on the moon contains active compounds that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and fuels, scientists in China report May 5 in the journal Joule. They are now exploring whether lunar resources ...