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

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

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

The Dead Sea isn’t just the saltiest body of water on Earth—it’s a living laboratory for the formation of giant underground ...

The Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago and has been continuously changing ever since. For instance, the Himalayas continue to ...

There is a direct link between Earth’s crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way’s structure, as found by a new study.

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...