Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...
In an investigation to find out what sparked life on Earth, researchers have discovered that RNA formed through surprisingly ...
Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.
From the summit of Mount Everest to the depths of the Mariana Trench, Earth’s surface reveals dramatic extremes. This video ...
Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a unique set of moral questions, Peter Godfrey-Smith of ...
In each episode, geologist Iain Stewart describes how a certain geological force played a determinant part in human history. Culture may render people less dependent on nature, it still interacts with ...
It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and at all ...