In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

New experiments show young rocky planets can generate water naturally when molten surfaces react with hydrogen in their early atmospheres.

When Earth’s ancient supercontinent Nuna broke apart, it reshaped oceans, cooled the climate, and set the stage for complex ...

This shift in Earth’s tectonic tempo had profound implications above ground. With less volcanic carbon dioxide heating the ...

Five vast bodies of water cover 71% of our planet’s surface—the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans. In ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive ball of trapped heat beneath the Southern ocean, a ticking time bomb that could make the ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

A team of scientists has made a 'big' discovery about one of the pillars of the global ecosystem using a world-wide network ...

The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat caused by greenhouse emissions, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a ...