When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, scientists say.

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

“Given the mass loss rate measured by the Webb Space Telescope, the gas around 3I/ATLAS would be swept up by the solar wind ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now emitting a distinct green glow as it nears Earth, a transformation attributed to the ...

Earth’s distant future has always been framed as a slow fade billions of years from now, but a new generation of models is ...