Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

Researchers who compared levels of three potassium isotopes in surface rocks and primordial rocks found a deficit of one ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing ...

Mystics often attribute this orange color to 'Blood Moon,' or total lunar eclipse. But as it turns out, it is just simple ...

The moon's influence is huge, both for human civilization and life as a whole. Its destruction would have catastrophic ...