“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.

The Trump administration's latest move to undermine environmental protections - a repeal of the endangerment finding - is the most dangerous yet.

A shifting of Earth’s poles, referred to as ‘True Polar Wander,” combined with the sinking of tectonic plates during the Cenozoic Era, altered the planet’s interior, with rising hot mantle material ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned dust a.

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Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.