This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.

An “ancient” comet that won’t be seen again for tens of thousands of years will be visible Thursday night, after traveling from beyond the solar system to within its closest point to Earth ...

Don't look up! No seriously, don't bother. None of the five asteroids are big enough to see from Earth. © NASA A quintet of asteroids will all come close to Earth on ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

From the deepest ocean trench to the tallest mountain, plate tectonics explains the features and movement of Earth's surface in the present and the past. The theory of plate tectonics was ...

According to spaceweather.com, on Monday, October 14, Earth will pass through the comet's orbital plane, causing the comet to sprout an 'anti-tail,' which is a tail pointing toward the sun, not ...

It lies in the background of the Sagittarius constellation, at a distance of about 20,000 light years from Earth. The main role here is played by a black hole with a mass of about six solar masses ...