Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA's EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source ...

Righetti High School science teacher Laura Branch has inspired countless students to explore the wonders of science and ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before they hit the ground. Every now and again, though, something larger gets ...

an early-Earth geologist and assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, is insatiably curious about what our planet was like during ancient eons rife with meteoritic ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...

According to a new study that was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth may have once had rings ...

Armed with advanced technology, decades of expertise, and insights from an NSF-funded study, a multi-institution team of ...