I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...

The volume of the ocean, its average purity, and the chemical makeup of H₂O allow a simple estimate of the amount of hydrogen ...

With an estimated 6 sextillion kilograms of the stuff—that’s 21 zeroes by the way—the Earth’s core is another example of why ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

A research team has produced the first direct experimental evidence that Earth’s iron core traps hydrogen inside nanoscale ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

The Earth is apparently halfway through its lifecycle, and this was revealed using an unlikely neighbour in space – and it ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting closer to their stars than Mercury, and rocky worlds much larger than Earth ...

Pioneering in its approach to materials, Rammed Earth House is a home of tactile beauty, as well as one of the few examples ...