Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

After those samples arrived on Sept. 24, 2023, we got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could ...