2024 YR4 hails from the middle of the main asteroid belt that hangs out between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter – and it was ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Despite being a scenario widely pondered by astronomers and Hollywood writers for decades, further observations have since determined YR4 will not impact the Earth in 2032 as originally predicted.

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Bacteria used oxygen far earlier than expected, reshaping views on early life, evolution, and photosynthesis origins.

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When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories ...