The Sun’s poles may hold answers to long-standing mysteries about magnetic cycles, solar wind, and space weather. The polar ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

A new model uncovers how Earth’s liquid core has sustained its magnetic field since the planet’s beginnings, offering new ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

In the fields of geophysics and seismology, understanding the mechanisms that trigger earthquakes is crucial for predicting and minimizing their impacts.

Japan's hot springs reveal how Earth's organisms survived the 'Great Oxidation Event' 2.3 billion years ago: Study A team ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

A new study by Caltech’s Konstantin Batygin and his colleague theorizes how super-Earths are formed. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt ...

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...

If you’re wondering why we haven’t met aliens, it might be because habitable zone planets just don’t get smashed almost to ...