Today, the moon doesn't have a magnetic field at all. But some rocks — notably, many samples returned from NASA's Apollo ...

Their study challenges the longtime belief that the moon's magnetic field remained strong for long stretches of time.

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

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Several studies have predicted that not all geomagnetic reversals have been discovered, but it was unknown in which periods they might be hidden. Researchers led by the National Institute of Polar ...

Scientists now believe vast water reserves are hidden nearly 400 miles beneath Earth's surface, locked within rock. Lab experiments, earthquake data, and rare deep-formed diamonds suggest this 'wet' ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

Marcia Bjornerud loves rocks. Not just under a petrographic microscope, but as animated entities with properties and ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...