Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

“The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, with discharge rates and flow velocities dwarfing any other known floods in Earth’s history,” Aaron Micallef, lead author of ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

Dating back at least half a billion years, they raise questions about Earth's geological history and dynamic evolution. The research provides new insights into Earth's interior and its seismic ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

Listen to Story Continents formed through a combination of processes It began billions of years ago during the early history of the Earth Initially, the Earth's surface was dominated by molten rock In ...

Earth system history, climate and climate change, marine and freshwater systems, and ecology. It also considers the interactions between humans and these systems. There is indirect evidence that ...

For example, bubbles of air in glacial ice trap tiny samples of Earth’s atmosphere, giving scientists a history of greenhouse gases that stretches back more than 800,000 years. The chemical make-up of ...