These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

Geologists studying the Cambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon have uncovered exciting new insights that challenge traditional ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Since soon after our planet formed, Earth's 4.6 billion-year-long history was dominated by single-celled life. Something ...

According to new research, Apophis's brief interaction with Earth’s gravity could unleash tremors and landslides on the ...