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

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

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

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

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

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

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

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth’s oceans has been discovered. The ...

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 ...