Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Geomagnetic disturbances caused by solar activity could be increasing the risk of heart attacks here on Earth, according to a ...

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

New research from the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo suggests iron-rich ecosystems played a ...

An Earth-observing radar satellite launched in July jointly between the U.S. and India has returned its first images of our ...

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

UC Riverside researchers have discovered a piece that was missing in previous descriptions of the way Earth recycles its ...

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