Meteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole ...

Oxygen isotope analysis of lunar soil shows meteorites delivered only a limited amount of water to the Earth–Moon system ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago.

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, which lasted from about 630 to 540 million years ago, has long puzzled scientists studying the ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its ...

Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ ...

Rocks from Australia have given scientists the oldest direct proof that Earth's surface was moving in separate pieces 3.5 ...

The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s ...

The Trump administration is working with a U.S. company to challenge China's dominance over rare earth elements. The metals ...

A park in the quiet Medina County community of Sharon Center is considered prime hunting ground in the search for fragments ...