Scientists are concerned with how abiogenesis — the inception of life from non-living matter — could have occurred in the first place; some theories state that certain environments on Earth, like ...

With water covering the majority of our planet, scientists have been wading through ideas to answer a fundamental question: Where did it all come from? A popular theory suggests asteroids or ...

In fact, water may have been part of Earth's makeup all along. The study examines rare meteorites known as enstatite chondrites (ECs), which are thought to be similar in composition to the rocks that ...

The deadly earthquake in Myanmar last month may have disrupted production of critical minerals that are normally sold to China, casting further uncertainty over global rare earth supplies at a key ...

A major new study may help solve a long-standing puzzle in planetary science: why the meteoroids that are most likely to carry the building blocks of life so rarely make it to Earth. Although ...

A new study has found that Earth’s geographic poles may shift their position in coming years due to alarming levels of ice melt because of climate change. The study, published in March in the journal ...

A new cosmic suspect is now in the spotlight: the supernova. According to 9News, researchers are investigating whether these massive stellar explosions may have quietly altered the planet’s ...

A popular theory suggests asteroids or comets helped bring the precious resource to Earth in chance encounters, but new evidence may be sinking this idea. A study published in the journal Icarus ...

Did the chemical components necessary to create water on Earth come from space or already exist here? One prevailing notion holds that asteroids containing either water of its building blocks ...