Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

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

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

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

The Perseverance Rover has samples of potential ancient life on the planet. The challenge is getting them back to Earth.

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

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

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

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 ...

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

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

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