Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...

The Earth’s magnetosphere is a protective shroud that blocks charged particles and cosmic rays blasted out by the Sun. The ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

A newly discovered, faint radio emission, the Hectometric Continuum, emerges only after sunset and pulses through Earth's ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift over the next five years. Here's why it was changed. When you ...

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Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians. The ...