Since New Horizons' close encounter with Pluto 10 years ago, experts have come to think of the dwarf planet as much more ...

The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ...

An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these ... Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Xingchen “Tony” Wang, a lead author of the report.

New research shows iodine in Earth’s early atmosphere delayed the ozone layer’s stabilization, affecting life evolution.

However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first ... objects that could have led to the formation of the oceans. For the past few years, I've been ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

This would explain the younger geological formation date for these minerals ... Today, the bulging of Earth’s oceans with the tides exerts a gravitational attraction that slowly accelerates ...