Atmos reports on the significance of understanding rocks to address climate issues.

Key climate tipping points may be closer than expected, raising the risk of accelerating warming, sea-level rise, and ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

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

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

Human intelligence wasn’t a cosmic evolutionary fluke, some scientists say. The case against cosmic loneliness is growing.

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red ...

The satellite will be able to process much of its data directly in space using artificial intelligence technology powered by ...