The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

The Department of Geology has changed its name to the Department of Earth Sciences to better reflect the breath of its work.

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

The Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Case Western Reserve University invites applications for a permanent faculty ...

Measurements and data collected from space can be used to better understand life on Earth. An ambitious, multinational research project has demonstrated that Earth's biodiversity can be monitored and ...

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The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing ... of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The researchers analysed ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...