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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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