A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not arrive on Earth at such an early stage of its formation as previously ...

Since this article was published, Planet Labs reached out to Mashable to provide the following statement: "Planet does not censor, modify or manipulate images. Planet is continuing to make earth ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at Institute of Science Tokyo provides new evidence supporting the formation of polyester microdroplets under a wider range of realistic ...

The world we live in is constantly changing - even the ground underneath our feet. Earth’s shell is made up of several large tectonic plates, which have been moving and splitting for billions of ...

it only arrived on Earth after the formation of the moon through a series of further impacts known as the Late Veneer Event. As the Earth was hit much more frequently by these impacts than the ...

Remarkably, it could one day lead to the formation of Earth's sixth ocean. At the heart of this phenomenon are tectonic plates—massive sections of the Earth's crust that move atop the semi-fluid ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... as the vehicle climbed high into Earth's atmosphere, giving Haven-1 a view of a ride it will take to space next year.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

One day, he was using STIS to observe a nearby star that he suspected harbored a planet and asked me to help him analyze the images. I don’t remember now what triggered him to tell me the story ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, our planet was impacted by a Mars-sized body (Theia), which led to the formation of the Moon. According to current theories, water was introduced to Earth and the ...

Planetary formation has always fascinated scientists. Understanding how Earth and Mars formed, and why they contain fewer essential elements than expected, remains one of the biggest mysteries in ...