Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

Can we design our way out of planetary challenges? Engineering Earth is a cinematic exploration of how humans are beginning ...

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

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, ...

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

Forget the dusty, rusty landscape you see today. Billions of years ago, Mars may have been soaking wet. Tropical storms might have drenched the Red Planet. That is the startling conclusion from new ...

Buying secondhand jeans can cut carbon costs by 90 percent, while cold-washing and and line-drying may reduce the carbon cost ...

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 ...

Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...

New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...