Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Off the coast of Vancouver Island, a slab of ocean floor has dropped by about five kilometers along a fault that scientists ...

This rock star is ready for its extreme close-up. Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the ...

When NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, launched into orbit in 2016, none of the University of ...

A new study presents a geological explanation for the East Antarctic Ice Sheet's head start. This annual phenomenon can influence weather in a variety of ways, from raising local temperatures to ...

Earth reaches aphelion on July 6, 2026, placing it about 152 million kilometres from the Sun. So why is it still summer?

A new study gives fresh insight into what happens to planets after the death of their star. The post Science reveals fate of ...

Using complex climate models, researchers have pinned down the point at which life will no longer be able to survive on Earth ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

A new study suggests Earth may have been sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers found that asteroid impacts could launch microbes into space, where some might survive the ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most extreme ice age—known as Snowball Earth. During the ...

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...