Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

Although the rocks that record the earliest parts of Earth’s history have been destroyed ... worlds in our solar system and beyond! Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

Our home, planet Earth, is part of a system of bodies that orbit a central star – the Sun. This solar system consists of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giant planets as well as an ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

During this period, the parts of the Earth classified as drylands expanded by about 1.66 million square miles, an area bigger than India. Such lands now comprise more than 40 percent of the globe ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.