On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions has resulted in rising temperatures and sea levels, leading to extreme weather ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

July 9 could be the shortest day of your life as the Earth's accelerating rotation is expected to make today fly by quicker ...

An analysis led by the University of Chicago of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why the planet was ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...