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

These new iron-nitride magnets are stronger, cleaner to make, and made from domestic iron-salt waste and nitrogen.

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 ...

Stretching like a colossal spine along western South America, the Andes stand as the world's longest mountain range. It spans ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

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

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 ...

The Moon is turning rusty, and Earth may be the cause. Scientists suggest that our planet’s atmosphere could be behind the ...