Historian Sunil Amrith’s 2025 British Academy Book Prize winner traces how conquest and extraction drove 500 years of ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

Recently, astrophysicist Avi Loeb claimed that 3I/ATLAS boasts a “heartbeat”-like pulse that could provide evidence of the ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is not just a comet, but a technological artefact ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

This is Rainbow Mountain in Peru, where the ground naturally turns red, gold, green, and blue because of ancient minerals ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...