Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

RPI Professor Karyn Rogers, director of the Rensselaer Astrobiology Research and Education Center, and graduate student Meri ...

When you learned about the center of the Earth in school, you were probably shown a diagram that looked like a perfect layer cake—but in fact, that diagram is wildly inaccurate! Join Stefan Chin for a ...