These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

It is called paleo-detection. The idea here is that there are rocks existing from the time when Earth formed. Dark matter may ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...