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

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.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

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

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

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

Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Back then, this region was a shallow sea environment. There are probably only a few places on Earth where rocks this old preserve a moment in such detail, Drabon told Live Science. In the layers ...