A meteorite found in the Sahara is forcing scientists to rethink what kinds of worlds once circled the young sun. The rock, ...

Earth’s earliest chapter is mostly gone. Rocks from the planet’s first few billion years have been eroded, buried, recycled, ...

As it turns out, the conditions that set Venus and Jupiter up for their conjunctions in the sky are the same that are ...

A rare meteorite found in the Sahara Desert may be evidence of a long-lost "protoplanet" that formed in the early solar ...

Volcanoes are one of the most impressive geological features around, but the biggest of them all isn't here on Earth, but ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new exoplanets.

When the sun eventually expires and swells to engulf Earth, might the remnants of landfill and deeply buried nuclear waste be ...