Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

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

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

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

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

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

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

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

There is a direct link between Earth’s crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way’s structure, as found by a new study.

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