Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused more than 1,600 deaths and led to the collapse of numerous structures.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

Wednesday March 26 – New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of the earth’s formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary ...

Research suggests that early macropodoids likely adopted a bounding gait before transitioning to bipedal hopping. Small ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

So how did our planet end up with such a special ... Artwork of the young Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times ...

The total angular momentum of Earth's spin, the moon's spin and the moon's orbit is very large — far higher than for any other terrestrial planet. So how did we get so much momentum? Plus ...