A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

New evidence from rocks, molecules and machine learning is forcing scientists to redraw the opening chapters of Earth’s story ...

Apollo samples provide evidence: Researchers analyzed Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and, for the first time, ...

On July 2, 1881, United States president James A. Garfield waited at Washington, D.C.’s Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station to board a train that would take him to New England to begin his summer ...

Scientists believe they’ve found evidence that life on Earth is over a billion years older than anyone believed was realistic. New research used machine learning to scan ancient meteorites and fossils ...

The actor did a poll where fans got to vote to change his middle name Emma McIntyre/Oscars/Getty Macaulay Culkin discussed his “actual name” at a Nov. 22 event celebrating the 35th anniversary of Home ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...