About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

It took three million years for the chemical composition of the planet to be stable after its birth, but elements to help ...

The cuts come amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to shift away from clean energy sources and cut Environmental ...

Humans are gambling on the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean ...

An international team including University of Tennessee, Knoxville Professor Alycia Stigall, offers a new way to examine the ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed—Earth's solar system and its planets looked more ...

Earth spins, shifts, and now… flips? Our planet’s gymnastics routine continues underneath our feet nearly every day, but researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Germany recently mapped ...

Wildfire-born storms have become a growing part of fire seasons across the West, with lasting impacts on air quality, weather ...

Mesopelagic fish, long overlooked in ocean chemistry, are now proven to excrete carbonate minerals much like their shallow-water counterparts—despite living in dark, high-pressure depths. Using the ...