Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing traces of a ...

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks in a parking lot and a dozen strangers gathered around. “That’s pretty,” one ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

At Utah's White Mesa Mill, the air hums with acid and ambition. Massive sacks of monazite ore-each heavier than a car-sit in tight formation like munitions for an unseen war. Inside lies the lifeblood ...

The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their ...

The DC Comics Universe has had several reboots in its history, and while these three were the biggest, only two of them were necessary.

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

The discovery, published in Nature Geoscience, provides unprecedented insight into the chemical building blocks that formed our planet and challenges long-held assumptions about the complete ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...