About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

An interstellar trespasser known as 3I/ATLAS is almost certainly a comet. So, why do so many people think it's ...

The Mechanics of Earth's Spin Earth rotates once in about 24 hours with respect to the Sun, but once every 23 hours, 56 ...

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...

Researchers confirmed the impact origin of the Jinlin crater: a 900-meter-wide remarkably young impact crater preserved on a ...

Scientists have detected signatures in ancient rocks that push back the timeframe for the discovery of early life by billions of years.

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from ...

The British Geological Society is warning that the Earth is about to get hit by the most powerful solar storm in over two ...