In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

By examining chemical changes in zircon crystals and comparing them with maps of gas in the Milky Way, researchers observed that the changes corresponded with times when the Solar System passed ...

Spiral arms are crowded regions of space filled with stars, dust, and gas. As the solar system traveled through them, ...

South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions ...

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

Orbital data reveals that rocks transforming deep inside the Earth may be responsible for changes to our planet’s gravitational field.

At the heart of this discovery are zircon crystals, tiny geological time capsules that preserve chemical changes across ...

As the iron and nickel inside our planet shift, so does Earth's magnetic field, meaning the North (and South) Poles are also constantly on the move. Recently, the position of the magnetic North Pole ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...