Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

The farside possesses a thicker crust - the outermost layer of the planet - and is more mountainous and cratered.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

The marimo (Aegagropila brownii), a nationally designated Special Natural Monument of Japan, inhabits Lake Akan in Hokkaido, ...

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University ...

In our first interview with Mayer, he discussed using pressure cycling to study prebiotic chemistry. In the second part of ...