For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Scientists have long sought to explain a key mismatch in Earth's early history: oxygen-producing photosynthesis evolved ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Illustration of Fe(II)-enhanced phosphate adsorption onto phyllosilicates in Archean iron-rich oceans, a process that may have limited marine ...

The Hormuz mountain ranges are a unique geological formation with a kaleidoscopic finish. Though most other mountain ranges ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

Scientists have found that all five of the substances that make up DNA and RNA in samples from Ryugu, the asteroid Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency visited in 2020.

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created Earth's moon.

A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago. New research analysing ...

Scientists still have many questions about the earliest years of our planet. Earth formed about 4.55 billion years ago, but almost no rocks from that time have survived. Without those ancient rocks, ...

Recent research by Chinese scientists explains how deposits of rare earth elements (REE) are formed, proving that the emplacement depth (pressure) of carbonatitic magma is a key factor controlling the ...