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

All species in the series draw inspiration from real living organisms and processes seen on Earth, but crank it up to the ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

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

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for ...

New simulations show carbon enabled Earth’s inner core to solidify under realistic cooling, solving the nucleation paradox.

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

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...