Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

For three decades now, I have watched Earth warm—not through headlines or politics, but in my own data. Every year, the ...

Cosmic Rhapsody takes complex science – astrophysics, chemistry, the search for new worlds – and turns it into something ...

A 2019 satellite photo shows the recently resurrected "Marree Man" geoglyph, which mysteriously appeared in the Australian ...

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.