Earth's magnetic field may have been similarly as strong 3.7 billion years ago as it is today, pushing the earliest date for this planetary protective bubble back 200 million years. The new study ...

Scientists in China recently made a discovery at the heart of our planet: Every 8.5 years, the Earth's inner core wobbles around its rotational axis. This shift is likely caused by a tiny misalignment ...

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Understanding the origins of the Universe and of life, in order to better anticipate their future developments, is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Today, this exploration involves multiple ...

The surface of the Earth's inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural changes near the planet's center, published in Nature Geoscience. The changes ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth some ...

Earth’s familiar green landscape might not have always been so. According to new scientific research published in the journalInternational Journal of Astrobiology, our planet may have once shimmered ...

We live in a rapidly warming world. Immense volumes of human-generated greenhouse gases are nudging Earth’s climate to a warmer and warmer state, further changing our planet as sea levels rise, living ...

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals ...

Long ago, our solar system lost a planet. The planet, which scientists have since named Theia, found itself barreling uncontrollably toward a young Earth. The resulting impact destroyed Theia, turned ...

The International Continental Scientific Drilling Project of the Songliao Basin has revealed crucial information for understanding past and future climate trends and for sustainable exploration of oil ...