Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the impacting object strikes the newly formed Earth a glancing blow ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New model suggests an ocean of magma formed within the first few hundred million years of Earth's ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Flowing water suggests that water ice may have survived in the asteroid for longer than what was thought possible.

A team of NASA scientists and their colleagues have found evidence from meteorites that Mars and Earth had a similar origin, but then the two planets evolved quite differently. Based on their analyses ...