Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given rise to eukaryotic life.

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Most life on earth today wouldn't exist without water, but new findings suggest rain may have started the whole process! Dan ...

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth.

In a new book, NASA astrobiologist Caleb Scharf says the fate of life on Earth may hinge on leaving our planet behind ...

If the atmosphere were not dragged with our planet, you could utilize the insane relative wind speeds to decrease flight time ...

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

Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered MISO bacteria that use iron minerals to oxidize toxic sulfide, creating energy and producing sulfate. This biological process reshapes how ...

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home from China’s Tiangong space station. Those astronauts have now returned via the Shenzhou 21 craft, leaving its crew without a return r ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...