Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new ...

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

Water has made the Earth the planet that it is—a planet known for its blue oceans. Water shapes the land through erosion and is fundamental to Earth's ability to support life. But we have a hard time ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

A team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) compared the early impact histories of Venus and Earth, discovering that Venus experienced higher-energy impacts, resulting in an overheated core.

There is a direct link between Earth's crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way's structure, as ...

A new study co-authored by Texas A&M University geologist Dr. Michael Tice has revealed potential chemical signatures of ...

Researchers have unveiled that myriad, intricate factors influence the genesis and chemistry of bastnasite and rare earth carbonates, which are critically needed for today's tech industry and its ...

NASA’s Mars rover finds organic signals in mudstone that resemble microbial activity, sparking new debate over life on the ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a ...