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

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

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

In Jezero Crater’s Bright Angel formation, Perseverance has found rocks rich in organic molecules and minerals linked to ...

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.

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

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 ...

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local ...