Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

In an experiment simulating harsh Martian conditions, including X-ray radiation, scientists discovered that certain lichens ...

A powerful X1.1-class solar flare was released by the sun on March 28, resulting in radio blackouts across North and South ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

A new phylum of microbes has been discovered thriving in one of the least explored parts of Earth—the deep Critical Zone, a ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

An analysis of North America’s fossil record for the 18 million years before dinosaurs disappeared suggests the prehistoric ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

The Pink Moon, April's full moon, will reach peak illumination April 12. The previous full moon was March's Worm Moon, which ...