Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

About ten years ago, science writer Ferris Jabr started contemplating Earth as a living planet rather than a planet with life on it. It began when he learned that the Amazon rainforest doesn't simply ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

Complex life may be rare due to many necessary conditions like a stable star and planet. Earth's location in the galaxy minimizes exposure to harmful radiation. Jupiter's gravity may have protected ...

A lone man walks across an expanse of ice; a mottled tundra; desert badlands. The single human figure becomes a focal point ...

Duran Duran’s first single, “Planet Earth,” was on my mind this morning. At one point in the song, Simon Le Bon laments about there being no sign of life and asks if we can hear his concerns. As a ...

Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work covers anything from archaeology and the environment to technology and culture. Tom has a Master's degree in Journalism. His editorial work ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...