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A study published Monday proposes and puts to the test the theory that longer, continuous daylight kick-started weird bacteria into producing lots of oxygen, making most of life as we know it possible.

A geologist has discovered rocks in Canada that may contain sponge fossils dating back 890 million years — potentially making them the earliest fossil record of animal life on Earth.

Coyotes, pumas and goats are wandering around cities, while air across the world is becoming less polluted

As the coronavirus crisis slows down human activity around the world, we’re seeing positive changes to our planet.

A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet’s orbit.

Google’s Earth View has released 1,000 new, and very colorful, photos of Earth’s landscape, Google Earth Product Manager Gopdal Shah announced Tuesday.

50 years ago today Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin blasted off on a mission that would change history forever.

The Sausalito City Council on Monday ratified a local emergency declaration in the wake of last week’s mudslide that destroyed three homes and left seven others red-tagged.

Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth. Detailed computer simulations show that an enormous rock crashed into the seventh planet from the sun, said Durham University astronomy researcher Jacob Kegerreis,...

Kyrie Irving offered a simple message to science teachers Monday. “I’m sorry,” the Boston Celtics star said.

Six years after last landing on Mars, NASA is sending a robotic geologist to dig deeper than ever before to take the planet’s temperature. The Mars InSight spacecraft, set to launch this weekend, will also take the planet’s pulse by making the first measurements of “marsquakes.” And to check its reflexes, scientists will track the wobbly rotation of Mars on...

NASA’s upcoming InSight mission to Mars will be the first inter-planetary mission to take off from the West Coast.

Stanford University accepted 2,040 students to its incoming class for Fall 2018, the undergraduate admissions office announced on Friday. The admission rate of 4.29 percent is the lowest in Stanford’s history. The university said 47,450 students applied, a jump from last year’s pool of 44,073 applicants.

Former Commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield speaks with NBC on the importance of space exploration, what being an astronaut taught him about perspective on Earth and why Pluto was kept in the solar system line-up for new space documentary “Miniverse.” The "Miniverse" documentary airs on new science and technology streaming service CuriosityStream.

Scientists reported Tuesday that the dark expanse is 15,000 miles across and 7,500 miles wide. It’s in the upper atmosphere and much cooler than the hot surroundings, thus the name Great Cold Spot. And unlike the giant planet’s familiar Great Red Spot, this newly discovered weather system is continually changing in shape and size. It’s formed by the energy from...

Family and invited guests gathered at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday morning to say their final goodbyes to astronaut and Sen. John Glenn.

Family and invited guests gathered at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday morning to say their final goodbyes to astronaut and Sen. John Glenn.

While John Glenn certainly made his mark on the universe, he also had an influence on a number of people right here in the Bay Area.