About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...

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

This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...

Boffins have been puzzled for decades about two strange blots under our planet, but now some new research could finally be ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create life. In ...

Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other planets in our solar system—such as Mars—are constantly bombarded by charged ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The evolution of geology as an independent science can be envisaged as a relatively continuous process yet marked by three fundamental steps.

To better understand the circadian clock in modern-day cyanobacteria, a research team has studied ancient timekeeping systems. They examined the oscillation of the clock proteins KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC ...

For 39 years, activists have gone to great lengths to draw attention to the planet’s environmental needs Earth Day has been marked on April 22, every year since 1970. In that year, students gathered ...