This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Scientists uncover remnants of proto-Earth buried beneath continents, providing rare isotopic evidence that rewrites how our ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth ...

MIT discovers traces of “proto Earth” buried deep within ancient rocks, offering clues to the planet’s earliest history.

How to predict when Ruapehu might next erupt is an important, but difficult, question. A group of researchers thought: why ...