Early V-2 Photos of Earth V-2 rockets launched from White Sands, New Mexico in the 1940s and returned the first photos of Earth from space. The rockets were launched on a suborbital trajectory.

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

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Scientists now think the Earth’s story began around 4.6 billion years ago in a disk-shaped cloud of dust and gas rotating around the early sun, made up of material left behind after the sun’s ...

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

For instance, while we know what kind of rocks were being formed on different parts of ... They are the best archives to study early Earth surface processes. Our key findings were that explosive ...

The rock tells a fascinating story,' says Prof Richard Herrington, Head of Earth Sciences at the Museum ... They allow scientists to research the early atmosphere of our planet and the process of rock ...