When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth.

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

It’s one of the most enduring ideas about the formation of our solar system: Earth collided with a Mars-sized object, Theia, ...

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A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

New phospholipid discovery brings researchers closer to understanding how primordial cells emerged during origin of life. Roughly 4 billion years ago, Earth was developing conditions suitable for life ...

One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the ...

Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the ...

Earth’s immense web of life fill three broad domains—archaea, bacteria, and eukarya. Scientists from Monash University recently discovered hydrogen-producing enzymes in archaea, which were thought to ...