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

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North ...

A colossal iron ore deposit discovered in Western Australia’s Hamersley region has left geologists stunned — not just for its ...

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.

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NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

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

I felt that awe again when I noticed the first hurricane lily of the season growing so close to a boulder along the dirt road ...

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.