Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A ...

Earth has reportedly gained a second moon, a small near-Earth object designated 2025 PN7, which is now classified as a ...

A 2017 astronaut photo shows the islands of Dek and Daga lurking in the murky, algae-infested waters of Ethiopia's Lake Tana.

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Scientists have recently proposed the existence of “Planet Y,” a hidden Earth-sized world that could be lurking in our solar ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new ...

The weak spot, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, was identified in the 19th century and expanded in recent years.