Four billion years ago, the surface of the Earth was a battleground of chaos lava flows, meteorite impact, and tectonic writhing constantly destroyed new skin of the planet. But in all this geologic ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what that means for the planet’s history ...