Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the striking claim in new ...

This occurrence will be the closest approach to Earth by an asteroid of this size that scientists have known about in advance ...

Scientists have seemingly settled long-standing arguments about whether the components of Earth originated from the inner or ...

Earth formed within such a precise “Goldilocks zone” for oxygen that a 5% change would have prevented life from emerging.

Manganese dioxide can convert amino acids into hydrogen cyanide (HCN) without requiring methane, a finding that solves a long ...

Mount Etna's strange lava has long perplexed scientists, but new research reveals that the volcano formed in a bizarre way — ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

The Milky Way may not have a sharp edge, but scientists have now found where its star-forming activity largely comes to an ...

Mercury is a small, rocky planet about which researchers know relatively little. Two missions, taking readings as they passed ...

The "Your Name in Landsat" tool is one of several initiatives launched by NASA on Earth Day 2026.

A team of researchers have been analyzing ancient rocks found in Australia that suggest that the Earth formed in far ...