Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, may still persist today as odd anomalies in the mantle. When you purchase ...

From the summit of Mount Everest to the depths of the Mariana Trench, Earth’s surface reveals dramatic extremes. This video ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study hints. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...