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

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

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

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the ...

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

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

We know the temperature of Earth's inner core is very roughly about 5,000 Kelvin (K) (4,727°C). It was once liquid, but has ...

The discovery by the six-wheeled rover in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

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

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

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