When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...
Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...
This is the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet beyond our solar system with an atmosphere. Astronomers using the James ...
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...
The idea sounds like pure science fiction: a giant cannon that hurls satellites toward orbit at 28,400 km/h, using raw ...
The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.
When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...
If you want to know what’s causing climate change and how it affects where you live, don’t turn to the Environmental ...
Deadly and destructive, earthquakes remain unpredictable, but faster models that look beneath the ground, can help better ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
Study finds Earth's ancient atmosphere may have produced essential sulfur biomolecules like cysteine, challenging theories on ...
Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...