Scientists are investigating whether an asteroid impact could have triggered Earth’s first great flood, reshaping the planet’s surface billions of years ago. Evidence suggests that a massive space ...

Hunting for the building blocks of life? Located in the asteroid belt, Ceres is likely a good bet, study finds ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

Trump’s order directs federal agencies to “deprioritize enforcement” of statutes and regulations that include disparate-impact liability ... smoking-gun evidence of animus or harassment ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens – they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...