A new study used mathematical formulas and demonstrated that it’s highly unlikely life began on Earth. Instead, the ...

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

This in-depth exploration examines how Earth would transform in the absence of humanity, from the collapse of infrastructure ...

Early Earth was a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life until a big protoplanet crash carried in the necessary ingredients, a new study suggests. That collision of the proto-Earth and a ...

In 1986, excavators surveying land for a power plant in Romania accidentally unearthed a strange cave. It had been sealed up ...

Planets lacking plate tectonics and sufficient carbon dioxide and oxygen could make advanced civilizations like ours ...

A rocky, Earth-size planet located in our Milky Way galaxy may have an atmosphere around it, according to new research, raising the possibility that it could also have liquid water on its surface and ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

A Pakistani-born scientist may have uncovered signs of life beyond our planet. Dr. Nozair Khawaja, an astrobiologist at Freie ...

That’s according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which detected ...

Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no ...