Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

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

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the ...

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on wildlife, science and the environment. Robyn joined Newsweek in 2022 having previously worked at environmental ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers, led by a University of Hawai‘i (UH) at Mānoa planetary scientist, discovered that high energy electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet are contributing to weathering ...

The study revealed that liquid water still existed on Ryugu one billion years after its parent body formed. This conclusion ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...