However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of ...

Earth’s origin story has always had missing pages, from the chemistry of its first crust to the ingredients that seeded life. Now, a series of breakthroughs, from asteroid samples to ancient rocks ...

New name reflects more than a century of evolution and a commitment to understanding the whole planet Beginning in August 2026, the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Geological Sciences ...

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

One of the chemicals considered essential to life on Earth may have originated in outer space, researchers have found. Nitrogen compounds, including ammonium salts, may have made their way to Earth ...

NASA has tracked over 27,000 near-Earth objects, some over 1 kilometer in size. Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the ...

Santa Monica College unveiled its new 110,000-square-foot Mathematics + Science Building on Saturday, bringing together four academic departments under one roof for the first time and offering the ...

Replacement of steam traps at Benson Earth Sciences Building, Drescher Undergraduate Engineering, Economics Building, IMIG Music Building, Koenig Alumni Center, Norlin Library, Regent Administrative ...

A chemical element that’s not even in H 2 O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet was born ...