The chemical element sulfur is essential for all lifeforms and is a building block of proteins and amino acids. By studying ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed (4,600 million years ago) when it was struck by a large protoplanet, sometimes dubbed Theia, roughly ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe ...