During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and rocked by ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

The moon hasn't had a magnetic field for 4.36 billion years. That means it could hold fragments of the ancient Earth.

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

It was previously unclear when Earth became a gargantuan freezer. Now, University College London researchers have found evidence in an outcrop of rocks in Scotland ... Using both laser ablation (a ...

"You may say that if a true satellite is like a customer buying goods inside a store, objects like 2024 PT5 are window shoppers!" ...

A small asteroid may become a "mini-moon" of Earth's for a couple of months, according to some astronomers. But what makes ...

The SandAI neural network was trained using modern quartz sand and can help unravel the histories encoded in ancient rocks ..

The origin of life on Earth has long remained a mystery. Cosmic dust may have helped to kick-start life on Earth, new ...

On Wednesday (Sept. 4), astronomers spotted a never-before-seen asteroid, 2024 RW1, around eight hours before it entered ...