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Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

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

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

A fast-moving 2026 FF6 will pass close to Earth, but if it poses no danger, why are scientists still tracking it so closely?

This science-fiction adventure is a lot funnier than you might think. “Project Hail Mary,” the weekend box office smash that ...

The 2026 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows has been selected. The 32 fellows are recent PhDs who’ve been nominated as some of ...

Melting ice is not just raising sea levels, scientists say it is slowing Earth’s spin and making days longer, but how this ...

Each year, Space Science Week brings together leaders across the space science disciplines to explore the latest developments and discuss the future of the field from a variety of perspectives, from ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...