Scientists have found carbon residue in Martian rocks, indicating that an ancient carbon cycle existed. It means Mars was ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

A 4.4-billion-year-old zircon crystal discovered in Australia may be the oldest surviving piece of Earth.

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did ...

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

Green oceans on early Earth, shaped by iron, pushed microbes to evolve light-absorbing tools that worked in green light.

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from ...

What are some of the largest extraterrestrial impacts to effect Earth? Learn what we’ve seen in history, and what is ...