Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

The team recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell walls ...

By studying sulfur-based molecules in space, scientists are working to understand the chemical processes that might have led to the formation of life on Earth. German researchers from the Max ...

Researchers have broken a distance record in quantum communication by sending a secret encryption key nearly 13,000 km from China to South Africa, using a cheap, lightweight ‘microsatellite ...

What is the Miller-Urey hypothesis? The Earth formed around 4.6 billion years ago. For a few billion years afterwards, it had a rich mixture of chemicals but almost no organic molecules with ...

Alien: Earth marks the epic sci-fi/horror franchise’s first foray onto the small screen – and it’s been a long time in the making. First announced back in 2020, we’re nearing the finish ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process ...

Supersolids are a strange quantum state of matter that combines properties of solids and liquids. Now they've gotten even more mind-bending, as scientists have transformed light itself into a ...

For reference, the density of Earth is about 5.5g/cm 3 and the Moon’s is about 3.3g/cm 3. These are also some of the most ancient objects in the solar system, having formed 4.6 billion years ago ...