A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

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

Scientists find several building blocks of life on Bennu, an extraterrestrial asteroid, whose samples were collected by a ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

In the heart of the Australian desert, scientists have made an extraordinary discovery—tiny glassy spheres that hint at a massive asteroid impact, one that has remained hidden for millions of years.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico, forming the Chicxulub crater. This impact wiped out ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion years.

A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...