A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...

A new analysis of meteorite isotopes challenges long-held ideas about Earth’s origins, suggesting our planet may have formed ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and ...

Earth likely formed from inner Solar System material alone, raising fresh questions about the origin of water on our planet.

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

The broader lesson is that critical minerals are not only a mining story. They are also a supply chain story. Industries ...

Earth's "gold kitchen" lies deep beneath the seafloor. Island arcs, whose volcanoes form above subduction zones where one ...

Research in microgravity offers unique insights into materials science, improving crystal formation and advancing the ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the ...

Planetary scientists led by Paolo Sossi have determined that Earth assembled almost entirely from material originating in the ...