Here’s the deal: you live in Virginia, which means you have access to one of the most spectacular underground attractions on ...

The soda straw formations are another geological curiosity that sounds more like something from a diner menu than a cave ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

Young Earth creationists insist that the Bible be read literally. In their view, to reject biblical chronology ...

Earth's core is mostly made of the metals iron and nickel, but it also contains lighter elements like hydrogen, oxygen and silicon. CharlesC via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 How Earth got its ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. The rock, which fell to Earth from Mars, could reveal clues about the Red ...

Andrew Scott has previously received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. You ask a very interesting question. For many years, scientists assumed that fire ...

For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history (OK, the time might be late to the researchers, but it’s still 4 billion years ago) could ...