NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world—possibly as big as the moon or even Mars—orbited our sun before crashing ...

Since the dawn of the solar system, rocky visitors from deep space have blazed across Earth’s skies. When will the next asteroid or interstellar object make its pass by our planet?

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Most of us go through life assuming Earth’s place in the universe is secure. We picture our planet as a blue marble, peacefully orbiting the Sun in a cosmic dance that’s guaranteed to go on for ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. When you purchase through ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." When you purchase through ...

The Earth and the other planets rotate around the Sun in an anticlockwise direction. A year is the time it takes a planet to make one complete orbit around the Sun. The Earth goes once around the Sun ...