Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

And two upcoming NASA missions will put a spotlight on Venus, investigating how it formed and why it turned out so different from Earth. The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...