Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

“Evidence of fresh water this deep inside Earth challenges the existing theory that Earth was completely covered by ocean four billion years ago.” According to the scientists, the emergence of ...

We think of Earth as the “blue” planet. More than 70 percent of it is covered by water. But 97 percent of this water is in the oceans and 2 percent is locked in glaciers and ice caps ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators of whether Mars was habitable in the distant past.

It is generally accepted that in the distant past, the Earth was essentially covered in ice. This was when a global Ice Age occurred where the temperatures dropped dramatically (over the course of ...

Over two thirds of the Earth is covered in water. Water is vital to support all life on the planet. Water never leaves the Earth and its atmosphere. It simply moves around in what is called the ...