Researchers may have finally cracked the age-old mystery about the origins of Earth's water, and the answer might be related ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...

How did eastern North America form? Collisions hold lessons for how the edges of continents are built and change over time.

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically, where did the very first water molecules form, and how? In 2020, researchers at ...

Over 300 million years ago, all the continents we know today were joined together in a massive supercontinent called Pangaea. This video takes you on a fascinating journey back in time to explore ...

When the protoplanet Theia struck Earth more than 4 billion years ago, it may have delivered important chemicals to Earth that enabled life to appear. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Scientists have thought that our solar system's inner rocky planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars —formed first (around 4.566 billion years ago), while gas giants and icy bodies in the ...

The origin of life on Earth is one of science’s biggest questions, and previous theories have suggested that lightning may have played a role. While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric ...