When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Earth's relationship with space is much more complex than it used to be. Space around our planet was thought to be influenced ...

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, scientists say.

Astronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding these accumulations and working out how best to mine them, experts say.

When Kate Middleton handled a small piece of rock at London’s Natural History Museum she became one of the few people on ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...