A researcher has figured out that the Earth’s first continent was formed 3bn years ago, in a new paper that sheds fresh light on the early stages of the planet’s life. Jane Greaves ... continents ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and ... can produce a magnetic field — died before the rocks crystallized… if the ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could harbor conditions for life.

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, ...

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

Contemporary fiction is fascinated by Deep Time, a time before humanity and therefore before history, as it seeks to imagine ...

The implications of not understanding the formation of the inner core are far-reaching. Previous estimates of the inner ...

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew of four civilian astronauts is set to attempt the first-ever commercial spacewalk.

A group of astronauts led by a billionaire commander is attempting the first ever privately funded spacewalk in orbit this ...