Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

The methane layer could make it easier to detect signs of life from Titan's subsurface ocean. Titan is a moon, but it is more ...

a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere — a viscous layer kept malleable by heat deep within the Earth. It lubricates the undersides of Earth's ...

It is no wonder that curious minds have always sought to explain both the Sun’s origins and our relationship to it — whether through the narratives of myth or modern science. Today, we understand that ...

On grasslands now beneath the sea walked animals we would recognise and small bands of people like us whose descendants would ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

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