The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that exciting. But on it, we now know, lie some of the ...

The rocks beneath our feet are leaving a hidden signature in the shells of marine snails along Australia's ancient coastline, ...

The colossal movements of tectonic plates shape our world, influencing the composition of Earth’s atmosphere, the planet’s protective magnetic field and perhaps even the flourishing of life. Now ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Lausanne presents a new geological "rock ...

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

(Javier Zayas Photography/Moment/Getty Images) A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of ...

It’s unclear how a new date for the site might affect the human story. Since Monte Verde, researchers have uncovered sites in North America that predate the Clovis people, such as Cooper’s Ferry in ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

Whiteford Township is moving forward with a new water study.

Augustana College and the city of Rock Island have formed a partnership to guide planning for a proposed 600-acre land and water reserve in the Milan Bottoms.

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

A team of scientists from the University of Liverpool have found two strange anomalies that have affected the Earth's ...