About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

The 4-Billion-Year Journey of Earth’s Most Precious Metal The Cosmic Birth of Gold Gold — one of humanity’s oldest obsessions — is far more than a shining metal. Its story begins not on Earth, but in ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Why did life on Earth choose alpha amino acids as the building blocks of proteins? A new study suggests the answer lies in the stability of their ...

"The idea was for our payload to get us just up to the potential biosignature designation and have the rest of the story told ...

Carly Lane is an Atlanta-based writer and critic who has been with Collider in some form or fashion since 2021. She considers herself a television nerd, diehard romance/sci-fi/fantasy reader, and ...