From creation myths to political omens, different cultures have had vastly different interpretations of the dramatic natural ...

Philip Marsden’s latest book ‘Under a Metal Sky’ excavates the history, science and social-environmental consequences of ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

In the current issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia. The impactor’s ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...

Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

It's the first time the G20 summit has been held in South Africa, but this year's edition faces a boycott from Donald Trump ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

Matter with “forbidden” symmetries was once thought to be confined to lab experiments, but is now being found in some of the ...