Like pipes, statues and nails, the moon can rust. Such rusting has occurred despite a seeming lack of necessary components — ...

More than 50 times further from the Sun than Earth, the tiny dwarf planet Makemake is one of the last places you'd expect to ...

A major climate change report has laid out a dire future. Meanwhile Minister Murray Watt has handed another win to Woodside.

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will capture the first full images of Earth’s exosphere, helping protect astronauts and guide the search for life.

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

A new take on the origins of Earth’s water claims to reveal the composition of the Earth in the first few million years after ...

New research shows Earth was born dry, lacking water and life-essential chemicals. A later collision with Theia delivered water and volatiles, transforming Earth into a habitable planet capable of ...

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...