As well as offering new insights into mantle composition, the drill core gives us other glimpses into Earth's deep geology and the conditions that could have been involved in the origins of life.

These enigmatic objects, which blur the line between asteroids and comets, challenge long-held assumptions about near-Earth objects (NEOs) and may hold clues to the origins of Earth’s water and ...

Around 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event known as the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) mass extinction wiped out nearly 75% of Earth’s species, including the non-avian dinosaurs.