Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a kaleidoscope of colors. From the stunning feathers of male peacocks to the ...

Earth's first trees had hundreds of tree-like structures within them, making them exceedingly more intricate than the insides of modern trees, a new study finds. Researchers made the discovery ...

Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region.

The layering of minerals in an ancient Martian riverbed channel suggests that primordial Mars resembled primordial Earth, and may have been just as suitable for life. The analysis, based on data ...

This suggests that the rocks came from a "primitive" region of Earth, as, unlike helium-4, helium-3 can't be replenished and thus must have come from the original building blocks of the planet.

Gradually, as the team focused the laser more precisely, the color became more and more blue-green. “And at some point, as it really gets perfected, you're like ‘Wow,’” Ng tells Newscripts.

In fact, there might be enough primordial black holes roaming the universe to explain at least a portion of dark matter, the mysterious substance that accounts for over 80% of all the matter in ...