The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

By Bruce Spangenberg Soils are the foundation of gardens and landscapes, featuring characteristics that vary among locations ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

The formations, which span an area as large as ... forming chemical reactions with the rocks. Water, either in liquid or ice form, could have caused the erosion by infiltrating fractures in ...

Fracking is a method of oil and gas production that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up rock ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...

The period of the ripples' formation ... found nearby in the Amapari Marker Band of rock, suggests the presence of a lake with up to 2 meters of water, slightly later in Mars's history than ...